Louise Candlish is the internationally bestselling and award-winning author of 17 novels. Her latest release Our Holiday, set among second-home owners on the English south coast, is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2025 nominee.

Next up is A Neighbour's Guide to Murder, publishing July 2025 (UK) and 2026 (US).

Louise recently celebrated her 20th anniversary as a published author with the news of two prestigious prizes for her book The Only Suspect: the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award for Thriller of the Year and the Ned Kelly Award for International Crime Fiction. 
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She is best known for Our House, winner of the British Book Awards Book of the Year – Crime & Thriller and now a major four-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton. A Waterstones Thriller of the Month, the book received a Nielsen Bestseller Silver Award for 250,000 copies sold.

Louise lives in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the ones featured in her books, with her husband, daughter, and a fox-red Labrador called Bertie, who is the apple of her eye. Authors who inspire her include Tom Wolfe, Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine and Agatha Christie. 

AWARDS
2025 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2025 (longlisted): Our Holiday
2025 New York Festivals Awards Audiobook - Ensemble (shortlisted): Our Holiday  
2024 Ned Kelly Award Best International Crime Fiction (winner): The Only Suspect
2024 Capital Crime Fingerprint Award Thriller of the Year (winner): The Only Suspect
2024 CWA Dagger in the Library Award (shortlisted) 
2021 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award (longlisted): The Other Passenger
2019 British Book Awards Crime & Thriller Book of the Year (winner): Our House
2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award (longlisted): Our House
2019 Glass Bell Award (shortlisted): Our House
2019 Amazon Publishing Readers Award Best Crime Novel (shortlisted): Our House
2019 Audible Sounds of Crime Award (shortlisted): Our House
2018 Specsavers National Book Award Crime/Thriller of the Year (longlisted): Our House