Sunday Times bestselling author ​Louise Candlish grew up in the Midlands town of Northampton and moved to the capital to study English at University College London. She is the author of 16 novels, including her brand-new thriller The Only Suspect, set in 1995 and described by the Daily Mail as 'a perfect mix of nostalgia and menace'. It is out now in hardback, ebook and audio.

Louise's #1 bestseller Our House won the British Book Awards 2019 Crime & Thriller Book of the Year and is now a smash-hit 4-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston, Tuppence Middleton and Rupert Penry-Jones (view the full series on ITVX).

Louise's latest paperback is The Heights, a twisty revenge thriller whose narrator, Ellen, has a strange fear of heights known as 'high place phenomenon'. It is out now in paperback and has also been optioned for TV.

Louise lives in South London with her husband, teenage daughter and fox-red Labrador Bertie.

​Author photo by Neil Spence