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. 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 |