Alex Stone
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Alex Stone is an accountant from the West Midlands, who uprooted her life to pursue her dream of living by the sea and becoming a writer. She is proof that if you stick at it, anything is possible, and is now a psychological suspense writer based in Dorset. This beautiful and dramatic coast is the inspiration and setting for her novels. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and was awarded the Katie Fforde Bursary in 2019.
Alex has a keen interest in psychology, and her novels examine how situations in the past can shape a person for the better and the worst. Her debut novel is a modern take on a Cinderella tale with a psychological suspense twist. It follows the clos
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Diane Saxon lives in the Shropshire countryside with her tall, dark, handsome husband. She has two gorgeous daughters, a Dalmatian, two cats, numerous rare breed chickens, and grandfurbabies too.
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She is an outdoorsy person, who loves nothing better than stomping up a mountain, and wandering round forests and woodlands while she's plotting her next book. Outside is where the ideas are!
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Upcoming in spring 2026 is Caller Unknown, a thriller about a woman whose teenage daughter is kidnapped, and she decides to pay the ransom, meet the kidnappers direct, and not tell the police.
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Anita Waller
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I am married (almost 50 years to Dave) with three children and seven grandchildren.
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Diane Saxon
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Diane Saxon lives in the Shropshire countryside with her tall, dark, handsome husband. She has two gorgeous daughters, a Dalmatian, two cats, numerous rare breed chickens, and grandfurbabies too.
After working for years in a demanding job, Diane gave it up when her husband said, “Follow that dream.” She subsequently had 12 romances published for the U.S. market then turned to the dark side with her psychological thrillers published through Boldwood Books.
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Hi, I'm Keri Beevis, and I'm the author of the bestselling psychological suspense thrillers, Deep Dark Secrets, Dying To Tell, The Sleepover, and The Summer House.
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Other titles I've written include Trust No One, Every Little Breath, The People Next Door, and The House in the Woods (previously released as The Boat House).
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Saskia Sarginson
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Nicole Trope
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The idea for her first published novel, The Boy under the Table, was so scary that it took a year for her to find the courage to write the emotional story.
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Victoria Jenkins
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Kerry Wilkinson
Recent and upcoming UK releases:
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24 October 2023: The Night Of The Sleepover
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2024: The Girl On The Side Of The Road
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Mallory Smith
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Nina Manning
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Patricia MacDonald
Librarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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Patricia MacDonald is the author of several psychological suspense novels set in small towns. MacDonald grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and has a master's degree from Boston College. Before writing her own novels she was a book editor and was once an editor for a soap opera magazine in New York. She is married to writer Art Bourgeau. They live in Cape May, New Jersey and have one daughter.
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Kate Helm
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I also wrote documentary and drama scripts, including the BBC1 programme: Angel of Death: The Story of Beverly Allitt. Kate Helm is a pseudonym for me - under my own name, Kate Harrison, I've written women's fiction (like The Secret Shopper's Revenge), teen fiction (including Soul Beach) AND health/diet books about 5:2, intermittent fasting and 'The Dirty Diet.'
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Ruthie East
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S.A. McEwen
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Linda Huber
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After working as a licensed therapist since 2008, she decided to write books about characters who are flawed, but trying. People that make toxic decisions but realize it and course-correct.
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Olivia Gavoyannis
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She is half-Greek and has been visiting the country with her family since she was a young child, when she first fell in love with the rich mythology, stunning scenery and of course the food. Returning to Corfu as an adult, she was struck by the dramatic - and often perilous - landscape and knew the island was the perfect starting point for a stifling psychological thriller.