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Insta Live chat with Michael at Bartowski Book Club

To celebrate the ebook publication of The Minders in the UK, I chat with Michael at Bartowski Book Club on instagram about the book and m...

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I chat with You're Booked

To coincide with the launch of What Lies Between Us, I was delighted to be asked to sit down and talk to You're Booked about how I came u...

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Chat with Meg Tucker

Thanks to Meg Tucker for chatting with me about What Lies Between Us! Click here to hear us talk about What Lies Between Us, becoming a ...

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Q&A

With the release of my next book What Lies Between Us coming on May 15, I asked my followers on Facebook and Instagram to ask me anything...

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Book Edits and Book Launches

It’s been a busy couple of months since my last newsletter, and following Thriller Fest in New York. Last time, I reported that I fell il...

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Seven techno thrillers to read

The One and The Passengers both question what happens when automation that has been designed to assist humanity starts working against it...

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Cover Reveal - Ich kenne deine Lügen

Excited to be able to share the cover of Ich kenne deine Lügen, which is the German version of When You Disappeared. This will be my fou...

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How The One reached Netflix

Literary scout Kate Loftus-O'Brien, who discovered The One, discusses how she scouts books like mine for production companies. Click here...

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The International Thriller Awards

Last week was a fantastic opportunity for book fans to meet their favourite authors in New York as part of ThrillerFest. It’s part of the...

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I predict the future...

So it turns out that I might have been psychic when it comes to The One and predicting that one day, we might use our DNA to find our per...

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S Magazine article

When I was a journalist, I loved writing for the Sunday Express’s S Magazine. So I was delighted to be invited to write a piece about how...

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Interview for Writing Magazine

It was a real pleasure to be interviewed for Writing Magazine. It’s an inspirational publication for both established and up and coming w...

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Vote for The Passengers!

Could I ask you a favour? If you enjoyed The Passengers, could you please vote for it in the Dead Good Reader Awards? It takes 30 seconds...

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Self Publishing

Back in 2014 and when I first wrote When You Disappeared – Then called The Wronged Sons – I wrote a feature for the Huffington Post about...

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The Good Samaritan shortlisted for an ITW Award!

Thrilled to hear that The Good Samaritan has been shortlisted for the 2019 ITW Thriller Awards. It is in the Best Original Paperback ca...

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Radio Northampton Interview

Earlier this month I spoke to Radio Northampton about The One becoming a Netflix series. Here is an article from the BBC website about my...

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Writing darker characters

I spoke to Poets In, The Creative Mental Health Charity, about writing darker characters and about mental health issues. https://www.poet...

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10 Things you don't know about me

As part of the blog tour for Her Last Move, I visited Novel Deelights to talk about ten things you don’t know about me and my books. http...

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Dead Good Reader Awards

I was amazed to be nominated for the Dead Good Reader Awards. The Good Samaritan is in the books containing the "most dysfunctional famil...

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Interview with The Advocate

Being a journalist, it’s always peculiar to be on the other of the dictaphone and be interviewed. But thanks to the American magazine The...

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