‘Tense, clever and bitingly observed. Superb’ Claire Douglas

Her secrets will be the death of you?

When Pixie moves into Columbia Mansions, divorced Gwen is quick to take the younger woman under her wing. But as Pixie becomes entangled with her charismatic landlord Alec, the lines of friendship begin to blur.

With rumours of illicit goings-on swirling, Gwen soon realises Pixie isn’t the only one with something to hide. How well does she really know the neighbours she considers her friends?

As scandal erupts, old grudges resurface, leading to a crime that will destroy the peace of Columbia Mansions forever.

Sunday Times bestseller Louise Candlish returns with this gripping, twisted story of neighbours, secrets and murder.

*****

Praise for A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder:

‘A taut, deliciously twisted tale with sting after sting? Just brilliant’ John Marrs

‘Only Murders In The Building meets Miss Marple in the most juicy and twisty way’ Steph McGovern

‘Sensationally entertaining, I could not put it down’ Adele Parks

‘Smart about social trends and slyly funny? naughtily subverting the Richard Osman formula’ The Times

‘Our most intelligent exponent of “domestic noir” wrongfoots us again ? astute characterisation and up to the minute satire’ Daily Telegraph

‘You won’t know who to trust in this tense, twisty delight of a thriller’ T. M. Logan

‘So twisty and so clever!’ TheSun

‘A wicked twist in the tale. Flawless!’ Lucy Clarke

‘A terrific story, witty, engaging and a total page-turner’ Liz Nugent

‘A whip-smart, razor-sharp domestic thriller? a fiendishly twisty plot. Gwen is my new obsession!’ Isabelle Broom

‘A brilliant mess-with-your-mind slow burn thriller. Louise is a master manipulator and this is not to be missed’ Nikki Smith

‘A masterclass of wit and thrills. We devoured it!’ Heat

*****

Readers give A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder five stars!

‘Another head spinning , twisting turning domestic thriller from the Queen of the genre’

‘A razor sharp, cleverly written, riveting thriller. I devoured this in a day’

‘I couldn’t stop reading! I was on the edge of my seat with all the twists and turns. My favourite Louise Candlish so far’

‘A fantastic book with a hilariously witty narrator ?highly recommend’

‘This book will demand all your attention, It is gripping, fast paced and brilliant’

‘It’s tense, suspenseful and one enormous puzzle which is very well told’

Pre-order now to get a secret gold foil design under the dust jacket – first-print-run only!

‘Tense, clever and bitingly observed. Superb’ Claire Douglas

‘You won’t know who to trust in this tense, twisty delight of a thriller – with a wonderfully compelling narrator who discovers that trying to do the right thing can sometimes go very, very wrong’ TM Logan, author of The Daughter and The Holiday

‘Brilliantly crafted with characters that will move into your mind, and stay with you in all the very best ways. Sensationally entertaining, I could not put it down’ Adele Parks

‘Smart about social trends and slyly funny ?naughtily subverting the Richard Osman formula’ The Times

*****

Her secrets will be the death of you.

It’s rare for a room in beautiful, iconic Columbia Mansions to be up for grabs and Gwen is thrilled when its new occupant Pixie turns out to be the most delightful neighbour she could have wished for. Before long the two women have formed an unlikely age-gap friendship and Gwen is making herself useful to Pixie in all kinds of ways.

But when a crime comes to light Gwen’s protective instincts go into overdrive, igniting an appetite for revenge that none of the residents are prepared for.

The last thing they need in Columbia Mansions is a scandal.

The last thing they want is a murder.

*****

Praise for A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder

‘Candlish spins a taut, deliciously twisted tale with sting after sting? Just brilliant’ John Marrs

‘Louise Candlish has a gift for examining hotly topical issues with intelligence, wit, and a keen eye for observational detail. A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder is a smartly constructed psychological thriller with a wicked twist in the tale. Flawless!’ Lucy Clarke

‘A terrific story, witty, engaging and a total page-turner’ Liz Nugent

‘A whip-smart, razor-sharp domestic thriller? a fiendishly twisty plot. Gwen is my new obsession!’ Isabelle Broom

‘A brilliant mess-with-your-mind slow burn thriller. Louise is a master manipulator and this is not to be missed’ Nikki Smith

‘Louise Candlish excels at issue-led plots. A clever “through the keyhole” take on neighbours’ Jane Corry

‘Meticulously plotted with twists and turns aplenty. It’s a truly addictive read’ Hannah Beckerman

‘A masterclass of wit and thrills. We devoured it!’ Heat

Readers are gripped by A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder?

‘Another head spinning , twisting turning domestic thriller from the Queen of the genre’ (Five stars)

‘A razor sharp, cleverly written, riveting thriller. I devoured this in a day’ (Five stars)

‘I couldn’t stop reading! I was on the edge of my seat with all the twists and turns. My favourite Louise Candlish so far’ (Five stars)

‘A fantastic book with a hilariously witty narrator ?highly recommend’ (Five stars)

‘This book will demand all your attention, It is gripping, fast paced and brilliant’ (Five stars)

‘Riveting’ THE TIMES

‘A superstar of psychological thrillers’ DAILY MAIL

A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick: ‘We both loved this sizzling summer scorcher of a book’

***

Charlotte and Perry long for summers at Cliff View, their gorgeous holiday home overlooking the turquoise waters of Pine Ridge. And now that city friends Amy and Linus have bought a property nearby, they plan lazy weeks of sun, sea and sipping rosé on Charlotte’s summerhouse veranda.

But there’s trouble in paradise?

A rising tide of resentment towards second-home owners is heading their way and small acts of criminal damage are escalating into something more menacing. By the end of the summer, families and friendships will be torn apart and Pine Ridge will be known for more than its sun-drenched beaches.

It will be known for murder?

Praise for Our Holiday:

‘Scorching’ THE SUN

‘An unmissable summer read’ HEAT

‘Smart, sharp and suspenseful’ Adele Parks, PLATINUM

‘Tense and gripping’ WOMAN’S OWN

‘This is psychological suspense at its finest’ WOMAN&HOME

‘Stands out for its wit, plotting and consideration of serious social issues? This is a novel that offers all kinds of pleasure – and a warning for anyone who thinks that family holidays will provide rest and relaxation’ LITERARY REVIEW

‘A stylish, sun-soaked thriller? Our Holiday is destined to be THE summer read of 2024′ Janice Hallett

‘The perfect summer thriller’ T.M. Logan

‘Nobody combines social tensions and murderous thrills quite like Louise Candlish’ Abigail Dean

?‘A taut, twisting psychological thriller that grabs hold of you and never lets go? Louise Candlish never disappoints’ Tim Weaver

‘Another slice of compelling, gripping escapism from Louise Candlish. Absolutely loved it’ Jane Fallon

Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong man.
 
Alex lives a comfortable life with his wife Beth in the leafy suburb of Silver Vale. Fine, so he’s not the most sociable guy on the street, he prefers to keep himself to himself, but he’s a good husband and an easy-going neighbour.
 
That’s until Beth announces the creation of a nature trail on a local site that’s been disused for decades and suddenly Alex is a changed man. Now he’s always watching. Questioning. Struggling to hide his dread . . .
 
As the landscapers get to work, a secret threatens to surface from years ago, back in Alex’s twenties when he got entangled with a seductive young woman called Marina, who threw both their lives into turmoil.
 
And who sparked a police hunt for a murder suspect that was never quite what it seemed. It still isn’t.
 
No one else could have done it. Could they?
 
‘The best Louise Candlish novel yet’    Lisa Jewell
 
‘I’m blown away by how good it is. A gripping tale of love, secrets and deception – it’s the best psychological thriller I’ve read in a long time’    Mark Edwards

‘A compelling, nerve-tingling treat’ Nicci French

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 read The Heights, I inhaled it’ LISA JEWELL

Ellen Saint is just your average mum. Devoted to her family, she’s no different from any other mother who wants the best for her kids. But when her teenage son Lucas brings a new friend home, cracks start to appear in Ellen’s perfect family life.
Kieran Watts isn’t like Lucas. He’s rude, obnoxious and reckless, and Ellen can only watch in despair as her son falls deeper under his influence.
Then Ellen’s whole world implodes and she embarks on an obsessive need to get revenge.

There is nothing you won’t do for your children – even murder . . .

‘Compelling, unexpected and beautifully written’ JANE FALLON

‘Tense, provocative and devastatingly powerful’ TM LOGAN

‘There’s nothing quite so chilling as the roar of mother tiger love. Louise Candlish had my heart in my throat. Dizzily dark. Dangerous. Deadly’  JANE CORRY

‘The Heights has everything you could possibly wish for – tragedy, obsession, revenge and, yes, love. Another finely-crafted masterpiece from Louise Candlish’  BA PARIS

He thinks he’s safe up there.  But he’ll never be safe from you.  
 
The Heights is a tall, slender apartment building among the warehouses of Tower Bridge, its roof terrace so discreet you wouldn’t know it existed if you weren’t standing at the window of the flat directly opposite. But you are. And that’s when you see a man up there – a man you’d recognize anywhere. He’s older now and his appearance has subtly changed, but it’s definitely him.  

Which makes no sense at all since you know he has been dead for over two years.  You know this for a fact.  

Because you’re the one who killed him.  
 
‘Kieran Watts has been dead for over two years when I see him standing on the roof of a building in Shad Thames?’

#CloseToTheEdge

‘The Heights has everything you could possibly wish for – tragedy, obsession, revenge and, yes, love. Another finely-crafted masterpiece from Louise Candlish’  BA Paris

‘There’s nothing quite so chilling as the roar of mother tiger love. Louise Candlish had my heart in my throat. Dizzily dark. Dangerous. Deadly’  Jane Corry
 
‘No one creates middle-class characters we love to hate quite like Louise Candlish. I’d expected her to do this, and to provide a great sense of place, and twists that would have been rifling through the book to see how they’d been done. What I wasn’t expecting was that this thriller of obsessive revenge and intense parental grief would tug at my heartstrings. Smart, addictive, twisting, surprising. Highly recommended’  Sarah Vaughan

‘Tense, provocative and devastatingly powerful. I loved Our House but I think The Heights might be even better’ TM Logan

‘A beautifully written tale of destructive obsession and revenge, with Louise’s trademark killer twist’ Mark Edwards  

‘It twists and it turns and it twists again. The Heights by Louise Candlish is the very definition of a “just one more chapter” novel. I devoured it. And it’s full of such great writing about the ferocity of maternal love’  Hannah Beckerman

‘Compelling, unexpected and beautifully written’ Jane Fallon
 

‘Absolutely brilliant? An exceptionally exciting, mysterious book – we both loved it’   Richard & Judy

It all happens so quickly. One day you’re living the dream, commuting to work by riverbus with your charismatic neighbour Kit in the seat beside you. The next, Kit hasn’t turned up for the boat and his wife Melia has reported him missing.

When you get off at your stop, the police are waiting. Another passenger saw you and Kit arguing on the boat home the night before and the police say that you had a reason to want him dead. You protest. You and Kit are friends – ask Melia, she’ll vouch for you. And who exactly is this other passenger pointing the finger? What do they know about your lives?

No, whatever danger followed you home last night, you are innocent, totally innocent.

Aren’t you?

Praise for  The Other Passenger:

‘Nobody writes so incisively about couples’ Daily Mail, Books of the Year 2020

‘Filled with really excellent twists‘  Stylist, Best books out in June

‘The queen of the urban thriller returns with her winning blend of whodunit and thoroughly unreliable narrators’ Red

‘One of the twistiest plots you’ll ever read‘  Cosmopolitan

‘Cleverly captures the envy zeitgeist’  Stylist

‘Stylish, suspenseful and absorbing‘ Best
 
‘You won’t want to put down this roller coaster read!’ Closer

‘Gripping from start to finish’ Bella

‘Not only is Candlish a terrific storyteller, she has the gift of making you care about unlikable characters’ Guardian

‘I’ll be amazed if we don’t see The Other Passenger on screen before long’ London Evening Standard

‘The layers of plot astound‘  Sunday Times  Crime Club

‘Another clever tale from the author of Our House‘ Prima

‘A chillingly addictive and glamorous thriller’  Sunday Post

‘Brilliantly plotted‘  Mail on Sunday

‘Louise Candlish helped launch the ‘property noir’ genre with Our House and Those People. In The Other Passenger, she brings murder to the London commute‘  Observer

‘This author is so good at twisty yet completely believable domestic thrillers’  Good Housekeeping

‘Superior thriller’  Crime Review

‘Suspenseful and utterly absorbing’ Sunday Mirror

‘The suspense is maddening, and the conclusion refreshing’ Press Association

‘An ingenious thriller‘ Irish Independent

‘The pacing is first rate, as is the handling of the first-person narration’ Sunday Times

‘Just brilliant; gripping from the first page with an incredible first person narrative and a sense of place that pulls you through the pages fast enough to make your head spin. Louise Candlish just gets better and better, I love her’ Lisa Jewell

‘A gripping read with a brilliant first-person narrative. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. It’s so good!’ BA Paris

‘A must read!’  Lucy Foley

‘Louise Candlish is the queen of the sucker-punch twist‘ Ruth Ware
 
‘Dark and clever and terrific‘  Nicci French

‘I couldn’t put it down!’ Shari Lapena

‘A  tightly constructed, corkscrewing plot’  Sarah Vaughan

‘Psychological suspense at its most elegant and sinister‘ AJ Finn

‘Louise is the mistress of the ‘Oh my God, this could be me’ nightmare’  Fiona Barton

‘A stunning masterwork of style and suspense‘ Jeffery Deaver?

‘Equal parts riveting, twisty, and unsettling‘  Stephanie Wrobel

‘An instant classic‘  Mark Edwards  

‘Outstanding’ Catherine Isaac

On a bright morning in the London suburbs, a family moves into the house they’ve just bought on Trinity Avenue. Nothing strange about that. Except it’s your house. And you didn’t sell it.

FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE.
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 when she needs him most?

FOR RICHER, FOR POORER.
Bram has made a catastrophic mistake and now he is paying. Unable to see his wife, his children or his home, he has nothing left but to settle scores. As the nightmare takes grip, both Bram and Fi try to make sense of the events that led to a devastating crime. What has he hidden from her – and what has  she  hidden from  him? And will either survive the chilling truth – that there are far worse things you can lose than your house?  

TILL DEATH US DO PART.

Praise for  Our House:

‘If 2018 brings a better book than Our House I will eat my hat. Addictive, twisty and oh so terrifyingly possible’ Clare Mackintosh

‘I raced through it this weekend. Such a smart idea. Twisty, warped, credible. Brilliantly plotted and compelling. Deserves to be such a hit’ Sarah Vaughan

‘Louise Candlish is a great writer;she inhaled me into her nightmarish world where everything we think we know is ripped from under our feet’  Fiona Barton

”A masterfully plotted, compulsive  page-turner’ Guardian  

‘Keeps you guessing to the end – and beyond’  Stylist

‘Whip-smart, knowing and brilliantly plotted’ India Knight

‘A  corker’ Evening Standard

‘Terrific premise’ New York Times

‘Wonderfully plotted’  Jane Garvey, Woman’s Hour

‘A blood pressure-raising thriller’  Red

‘Gripping and heartbreaking with an undercurrent of unease running through it’ Louise Jensen

‘What a book! Fast, edge-of-your-seat stuff. Each time I set the book down I had to remind myself to breathe’ broadbeanbooks

‘Oh Louise Candlish, you are a genius! Our House is just brilliant. Scarily believable with the BEST ending I have read in a long time. I devoured it!’  Claire Frost,  Fabulous magazine