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“The queen of the sucker-punch twist.” —Ruth Ware, author of The Woman in Cabin 10 The bestselling author of the “masterfully plotted, compulsive page-turner” (The Guardian) Our House takes you on a haunting and nail-biting journey of tragedy and revenge. The Heights is a tall, slender...

DON'T MISS THE ORIGINAL SERIES—NOW AVAILABLE ON PBS! A disturbing and addictive novel of domestic suspense from an internationally bestselling author, where secrets kept hidden from spouses cause shocking surprises that hit home... There's nothing unusual about a new family moving in at 91...

One of CrimeReads’s Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021 Longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier 2021 Crime Novel of the Year The “queen of the sucker-punch twist” (Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author) and author of Our House weaves an unputdownable page-turner about a...

From internationally bestselling author Louise Candlish, a witty psychological thriller where an older woman's suspicions about her charming new neighbor ignite a deadly spiral in their luxury apartment building. In Columbia Mansions, secrets don’t stay behind closed doors for long. It's rare...

'A Neighbour's Guide to Murder is fiendishly sharp, clever and gripping. Nobody captures the mores of neighbourhoods and communities, and multi-generational complexities, like Louise Candlish. She's in a league of her own' Lisa Jewell ‘Tense, clever and bitingly observed. Superb’ Claire...

When her ten-year marriage to Alistair ends with his infidelity, Kate Easton vows she will not make the same mistake twice. She will never put herself - or her two children - through a relationship again. Then Alistair announces that his new wife is pregnant and he intends to cut his financial support to Kate. To keep her home she must divide it up and make way for a lodger. Enter Davis Calder, a glamorous and charismatic tutor with a failed marriage of his own behind him.

From the author of the international bestseller Our House, a new novel of twisty domestic suspense asks, “Could you hate your neighbor enough to plot to kill him?” Lowland Way is the suburban dream. The houses are beautiful, the neighbors get along, and the kids play together on weekends...

Arriving on the windswept Ile de Ré, Tabby Dewhurst is unable to even afford a room for the night. Overhearing a villager repeating the access code to her front door, she lets herself into the house, and so she enters the strange, hidden world of Emmie, whose sudden offer of friendship is at odds with her obsession with privacy. Tabby begins to form suspicions about Emmie, suspicions that lead her to a scandal with shattering consequences.

Eleanor Blake, distraught after breaking up with her fiancé Will, decides to do what most would scarcely dare: secretly follow him to the island hideaway where he's on holiday with the woman who took her place. But on the shimmering, sun-drenched Sicilian island of Panarea, distractions come in many forms and her fellow hotel guests Lewis and Frannie may not be all they seem either.

The day Maggie Lane dies, she sends her daughter Olivia a letter containing the address of Olivia's first love, Richie Briscoe. Olivia has not seen Richie for over twenty years, not since his desertion of her as a teenager almost destroyed her. Convinced that the note represents an admission of guilt, Olivia sets off for the idyllic seaside village where Richie now lives.

When Fi Lawson arrives home to find strangers moving into her house, she is plunged into terror and confusion. She and her husband Bram have owned their home on Trinity Avenue for years and have no intention of selling. How can this other family possibly think the house is theirs? And why has Bram disappeared? As the nightmare takes grip, Fi tries to make sense of the events that have led to a devastating crime. 

Exclusive interview with author Louise Candlish at the Audible Studios in London. Louise joins us to discuss her new novel, The Swimming Pool.

A gripping, twisty bestseller, longlisted for the 2025 Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year Award and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick Shortlisted for the 2025 New York Festivals Awards – Audiobooks Ensemble 'Riveting' THE TIMES ‘A stylish, sun-soaked thriller… Our Holiday is destined to...

Wenn dir die Nachbarn das Leben zur Hölle machen... Ein schockierend realistischer Thriller von Bestsellerautorin Louise Candlish. Lowland Way im Süden Londons: ein Vorortparadies. Gepflegte Häuser. Freundliche Menschen. Spielende Kinder auf der Straße. Die perfekte Idylle. Bis in Haus Nr. 1 neue Nachbarn einziehen und ein Albtraum beginnt. Lärm, Partyexzesse und Drogen, die Neuen kennen weder Anstand noch Regeln. Schnell liegen die Nerven der Anwohner blank.

Winner of the Fingerprint Award for Thriller of the Year THE NEW CAUTIONARY TALE OF OBSESSION, LOVE, JEALOUSY AND DECEPTION FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF OUR HOUSE AND THE OTHER PASSENGER Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man. Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the...

They’ve finally got her back… but is it really her? Little Tippi went missing eighteen years ago – her little face appearing on newspapers around the world, sparking endless debate and conspiracy theories. When three-year-old Tippi Macklin goes missing on a weekend break with her parents...

Two weeks in a boathouse on the edge of peaceful Lake Orta, Italy is exactly what Ginny and Adam Trustlove need. But twenty-four hours later, the silence is broken when the Sale family arrives. It doesn't take long for Ginny and Adam to be drawn in, especially when the teenage Pippi introduces her beguiling new friend Zach. Not one of them suspects that his arrival in their lives might be anything other than accidental...

They were friends who shared everything - until tragedy singled one out. At the birth of their daughters best friends Rachel, Mariel and Jenny make a promise: to love and care for each other's girls exactly as they would their own. Six years later and a tragedy has torn them apart. Within weeks, Rachel has packed up and gone. Settling on the beautiful, windswept Greek island of Santorini, she knows she has come to the right place, but as she slowly rebuilds her world she can't forget the pledge she once made.

There is nothing as powerful as a mother’s love. But will Ellen’s put her whole family in danger? From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Other Passenger and Our House – now a major ITV series – comes a nail-biting story about a mother’s obsession with revenge. ‘I didn’t...

When Joe and Christy Davenport step behind the Oxford-blue-painted door of their 'forever' home, they believe their dreams have come true. Yet the boxes aren't even unpacked before a series of events leads Christy to become obsessed with the previous occupant, the glamorous, enigmatic Amber Fraser, whose departure from Lime Park Road is shrouded in mystery. What happened to her? And why are Joe and Christy's attempts at friendship with neighbours met with an unnerving silence?