Louise Candlish is the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of 16 novels and she is published all over the world. Her brand-new psychological thriller The Only Suspect is out now and is described by the Daily Mail as 'a perfect blend of nostalgia and menace'. 

Louise is best known for Our House, on our screens as a major four-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston, Tuppence Middleton and Rupert Penry-Jones. It won the British Book Awards Book of the Year – Crime & Thriller and was shortlisted for the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, the Capital Crime Amazon Publishing Best Crime Novel of the Year Award​, and the Audible Sounds of Crime Award. It was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and Specsavers National Book Award. It has received a Nielsen Bestseller Silver Award for 250,000 copies sold.

Louise lives in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the ones in her books with her husband, daughter (when she's not at uni), 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. ​