Summer reads
#giveaway
alert 📢📢📢! I have a signed copy of
#TheOnlySuspect
hardback and
#TheHeights
paperback* to get your holiday reading underway! Just RT and like by 30/06 to enter (UK only)
*Tiny dog not included 😍
It is my birthday today and I will mostly be on a train, staring menacingly and musing on my mortality, as I head from Norwich to Harrogate (a serpentine route if ever there was one) for the
@HarrogateFest
#TheakstonsCrime
...🖤
If the cold weather is getting you down, you can always look forward to next summer and the new, scalpel-sharp thriller from
@louise_candlish
. Two privileged city couples, embittered locals and a summer that one person won't survive. This is Our Holiday:
I have some EXCITING NEWS! I am moving to the brilliant
@HQstories
to work with
@Kate7Mills
on THREE MORE BOOKS! I am putting finishing touches to the first as we speak and can't wait to share details soon! Thank you to
@SheilaCrowley
and
@CBGBooks
🖤
Onslaught of ME ME ME incoming…! I won a
@CapitalCrime1
Fingerprint Award for
#TheOnlySuspect
! Thriller of the Year - voted for by readers and therefore extra special 💕 Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
I'm so excited to have my mitts on a proof of
#OurHoliday
- is was beautiful torture watching copies arrive on doormats while I was Down Under...
Allocation is out of my control, but I'll be doing a giveaway soon so watch this space...
And pre-order deeds in bio 😍
Such a joyous outing to
@simonschusterUK
to receive a
@NielsenBook
Silver Award for 250,000 copies of
#OurHouse
sold! (Here I am with Matt from Nielsen.) 20 years and 16 books in, I am the Very Opposite of an overnight sensation! 🙏🙏🙏 to all who've bought, shared, recommended💙
It is TWENTY YEARS ago to day that my first book was published, can you believe it? So long ago, in pre-selfie times, that I don’t even have a photo of me holding it, only of the bottle of champagne I drank to celebrate… (cont in comments…)
A cancelled flight and lost day thanks to the Gatwick/easyJet debacle made
#Sardinia
all the sweeter once we actually got there! First time on this beautiful island, very much hope to return 💕
As if today couldn't get any sunnier, I'm thrilled to announce that
#OurHoliday
has been selected for the WHSmith Book Club with Richard and Judy!
Many in-store photo opportunities ahead, be warned 🤣
Pick up your copy at your nearest WHSmith or online at
So this week I (think I) finished my 2023 events for
#TheOnlySuspect
– I’ve met readers across the UK & Canada, and all over the world via Zoom, talking about Cynical Alex, Naïve Rick, Hedonistic Rollo, Elusive Marina – oh, and Evil Zara...
It's been OUTSTANDING - thank you!
A year ago this week,
#OurHouse
aired on
@ITV
starring Martin Compston as Bram, Tuppence Middleton as Fi and Rupert Penry-Jones as Toby... It ended the year as one of the UK's Top 10 most-watched dramas! Catch the boxset for free on
@ITVX
🌟 Glorious news! 🌟
#OurHoliday
is now a SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER! 💖🤩 Huge congratulations to you
@louise_candlish
on your scorching summer thriller!
The unmissable psychological suspense thriller is out now:
A HUGE thank you to all who have bought, reviewed and recommended
#OurHouse
in its first two weeks! It is number 11 in the chart and the first time I've had a book in the Amazon Top 50 pbooks!
@simonschusterUK
We've arrived in
#Australia
! OMG, the heat, the sunshine, the flora and fauna, the fruit that tastes like it did in Britain in the 1970s! (Day 1 😂) 🦘🇦🇺🐨
I'm back from my Norwegian cruise on the mega ship
#Iona
- spent many hours here in my porthole reading nook reading and watching the famous
#fjords
drift by... (reindeer throw model's own) 🚢
With
@lisajewelluk
who won Overall Crime Book of the Year for the brilliant None of This Is True (the reason I am not holding my award is it had to be re-engraved because of a spelling error, I haven’t rolled it under a seat in favour of alcohol 😂)
Just back from another
#TheakstonsCrime
of fun, frolics and, of course, crime! Lovely to see you if I saw you, sorry to miss you if I missed you, and thank you to
@sharoncanavar
,
@RuthWareWriter
and all the organisers, volunteers and readers who helped make it such a joy!
Oh wow, my first sighting of an
#OurHoliday
poster - and at my local station, Brixton! Thank you so much Team
@HQstories
, they look AMAZING!
Readers, please share pics if you see one! 🏖️🏖️🏖️
Very exciting to see finished copies of
#TheOnlySuspect
at CPI Printers today - it looks SO great! Fuelled by coffee and brownies, I signed lots of copies for
@Waterstones
- you can pre-order one here if you fancy... (out 2 February)
Just found this Travelcard from the 90s 😂 (Younglings, this is what we used to use for tubes and buses before barriers and Oyster cards and other sci fi developments)
#goodtimes
This is sobering, though to most older authors, not surprising. I remember crying in the street when my early books came out and I couldn't find them in the shops. But you learn that the hyped books are a tiny minority and you set about equipping yourself for the long haul.
According to a survey conducted by The Bookseller, 54% of authors found the process of publishing their début book negatively affected their mental health, while just 22% described a positive experience overall.
Read more here:
*COVER REVEAL* 🖤 It's just 6 weeks till
#TheOnlySuspect
hits the shelves in this gorgeous and glossy paperback form! I’ve been blown away by the love for this book so far, so thank you 🙏
You can pre-order the pb here:
Such a lovely afternoon talking
#TheOnlySuspect
the TV show - inspired me to revisit St James’s Park where Rick woos Marina among the willows and the pelicans and falls head over heels into…a Waking Nightmare 🖤
🗡 THE CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY
#CWADaggers
Louise Candlish
MW Craven
Lucy Foley
Cara Hunter
Anthony Horowitz
Vaseem Khan
Angela Marsons
Kate Rhodes
LJ Ross
Diane Saxon
Wonderful event at Waterstones Wimbledon with
@VictoriaSelman
- thank you to all who came - and what brilliant Qs!
#TheOnlySuspect
# AllTheLittleLiars 🖤
"She’s got an uncanny knack of touching on the secret fears and desires we all conceal and exploring what happens when we give into them."
@louise_candlish
has signed a three-book deal with
@HQstories
.
Read here:
Excited to get my nail-bitten mitts on a finished copy of the Canadian edition of
#TheOnlySuspect
! Thank you
@SimonSchusterCA
, it is beautiful 🤩 Can’t wait for pub day on 18th April 🖤
Wonderful event at
@waterstonesWQ
with the brilliant
@callytaylor
! My first time signing (early) copies of
#OurHoliday
- felt REALLY good! 🤩 Thank you Team Southampton for hosting us and to all who came out in the rain ☔️
Readers are thrilled by
#OurHoliday
by
@louise_candlish
☀️🌊
‘Wow, it certainly didn’t disappoint’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Will have you gripped from the 1st page’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘The twists are downright shocking’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Out July 4th. Pre-order now:
Not long before I embark on the Mini Tour of Dreams with the great
@lisajewelluk
and
@claremackint0sh
- come join us 26-28 April for crime fiction chat, character insight, life wisdom - and all-round fun!
Publication Day at last! How long can I keep my hands in the air? Till 9.30am, I estimate. Thank you to everyone who's already read and reviewed
#OurHouse
, I'm so grateful x
Hilariously,
@johnmarrs1
and I just introduced ourselves to each other this morning even though the evidence shows we were both there last night! Classic
#TheakstonsCrime
🤣
Very excited about next week's mini tour with
@lisajewelluk
and
@claremackint0sh
- two of my favourite Other Authors! Almost sold out, book the last few tickets here...
Readers love
#OurHoliday
by
@louise_candlish
☀️🌊
‘Another absolutely brilliant novel from Louise Candlish’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘If you enjoyed Our House ... you’ll love this’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Very atmospheric and a great story’
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Out July 4th. Pre-order now: