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About TM Logan

Bestselling author TM Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in translation in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.

THE DAUGHTER, which became an instant Sunday Times bestseller in its first week, opens as Lauren goes to pick up her daughter after her first term at university. She knocks on the door of Evie’s room – but a stranger answers the door. He doesn’t know Evie’s name. No-one recognises her picture. Lauren quickly realises that something is very, very wrong – and sets off on a desperate search into the dark heart of London to find her daughter before it’s too late…

THE DREAM HOME is about a family who move into a rambling Victorian villa and slowly come to realise that their ‘forever home’ has a very dark past indeed. THE MOTHER is a twisty tale of deceit and betrayal, of redemption and revenge - the story of a woman wrongfully convicted of the very worst crime and her fight for justice. Tim’s thriller THE CURFEW was also a Sunday Times bestseller, as was TRUST ME - described as ‘Everything you want from a thriller, and more...’

THE HOLIDAY was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and spent ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback Top 10, as well as hitting the #1 spots on Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks and Kobo. It has since been made into a four-part TV drama starring Jill Halfpenny. His novel THE CATCH, about a father who becomes convinced his daughter is about to marry a man with terrible secrets, was also adapted for TV starring BAFTA-winner Jason Watkins and is on Netflix UK.

His debut thriller LIES was one of Amazon UK's biggest ebooks of 2017 - winning a Silver Award at the Nielsen Bestseller Awards - and was followed by his second standalone, 29 SECONDS (2018).

Tim lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children, and writes in a cabin in the corner of his garden. You can find him at www.tmlogan.com.

Biography

I was born in Berkshire and grew up in Reading, the youngest of three boys and a fully-fledged bookworm from a very young age. I read history at Westfield College, part of the University of London, and went on to do a postgrad at Cardiff University.

I knew I wanted to write so journalism seemed an obvious choice, and after five years as a reporter and then education correspondent on the Nottingham Evening Post I moved to London to work on the Daily Mail. At the Mail I became the paper’s Science Reporter, covering all kinds of stories from new technology to the environment, space, genetics, health and medicine. I enjoyed being a national newspaper journalist but it didn’t leave much time for anything else – like thriller writing.

The next move took me back to the East Midlands, where I went to work for the University of Nottingham as a press officer. In the evenings and at weekends, I wrote fiction. In fact whenever I had a spare half-hour, I wrote – on trains, planes, in bed, at the kitchen table before anyone else was up, by the pool while my kids had swimming lessons. After a few years I managed to secure representation from Camilla Bolton at the Darley Anderson Agency, and in January 2017 my first thriller Lies was published.

Two weeks after it came out as an e-book, I discovered that my day job – by this point I was a deputy director in charge of the university’s communications team – was being made redundant as part of a restructure. That was when I decided to take the plunge into writing full-time, which I have been doing since summer 2017. It’s a job that I love.

Lies turned out to be one of Amazon’s biggest e-books of 2017, as well as being the second bestselling fiction title of the year on Apple iBooks and no.1 on Kobo. So far it has received more than 2,000 5-star reviews on Amazon and sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK. Together with my second standalone thriller, 29 Seconds, my books are now published in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.

The Holiday takes place over a sweltering summer week in the south of France, as four best friends see the holiday of a lifetime turn into a nightmare of secrets, suspicion, betrayal and murder… The Holiday was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, spending ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback Top 10 and selling more than 500,000 copies to date. It was made into a four-part drama for Channel 5 starring Jill Halfpenny and Owen McDonnell.

The Catch, my fourth book, tells the story of a father who becomes convinced his daughter is about to marry a man with terrible secrets. It has also been made into a four-part TV drama currently on Netflix and starring Jason Watkins, Poppy Gilbert, Aneurin Barnard and Cathy Belton.

My 2021 novel Trust Me has been described as ‘Everything you want from a thriller, and more...’ It was a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and is also available in paperback, e-book and audiobook. The Curfew follows the events of a hot midsummer's night, when five teenagers go up to the woods to celebrate the end of exams, and only four come out...

The Mother is about a woman wrongfully convicted of her husband’s murder who emerges from prison years later determined to find out who framed her. The Dream Home (2024) follows the story of a family who move into a rambling Victorian house, only to discover there are some very dark secrets contained within its walls…

My latest novel, The Daughter, became an instant Sunday Times bestseller on publication in February 2025. It follows the story of Lauren, who goes to pick up her daughter from university at the end of her first term - only to find the room occupied by a stranger. No-one knows her daughter’s name or recognises her picture, and it soon becomes clear she’s vanished without trace. So Lauren sets off on a desperate search into the darkest heart of London to find her daughter, before it’s too late…

When I’m not writing, I spend my spare time watching box sets on the TV, playing tennis badly and supporting the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team. Of course, I’m still a bookworm as well: I love the pull of a great book, one that you want to read on the bus, in the bath, at the dinner table, under the desk at work. Those are the kind of stories that I write.

I live in Nottinghamshire with my wife and two children, and write in a cabin in the corner of my garden.

You can find T.M.Logan on Instagram, Facebook, Bluesky, X, Threads and YouTube.

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