Louise Candlish is the internationally bestselling author of 17 novels. Her brand-new crime drama Our Holiday, set among holiday-home owners on the English south coast, is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick for summer.
2024 marks her 20th anniversary as a published author. Louise is best known for Our House, on our screens as a major four-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton. It won the British Book Awards Book of the Year – Crime & Thriller and was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, Specsavers National Book Award and several other awards. A Waterstones Thriller of the Month, it has received a Nielsen Bestseller Silver Award for 250,000 copies sold. She recently won the 2024 Capital Crime Fingerprint Award - Thriller of the Year for her book The Only Suspect and was nominated for the 2024 CWA Dagger in the Library Award. Louise lives in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the ones in her books with her husband, daughter, and a fox-red Labrador called Bertie, who is the apple of her eye. Her favourite authors include Tom Wolfe, Patricia Highsmith, Barbara Vine and Agatha Christie. |