Louise Candlish

Louise is the internationally bestselling author of 17 novels. Her brand-new crime drama Our Holiday, set among holiday-home owners on the English south coast, is a Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller and a Richard & Judy Book Club pick for Summer. Our Holiday is in development with Sony Pics TV.

Louise is best known for Our House, on our screens as a major four-part ITV drama starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton. It won the British Book Awards of the Year - Crime & Thriller and was longlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, Specsavers National Book Award and several others. A Waterstones Thriller of the Month, it has received a Nielson Bestseller Silver Award for 250,000 copies sold. 

She recently won the 2024 Capital Crime Fingerprint Award - Thriller of the Year for her book The Only Suspect and was nominated for the 2024 CWA Dagger in the Library Award. The Only Suspect also won the 2024 Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime Fiction. 

6 of her best-selling novels including Our Holiday and The Only Suspect are currently in TV development, where she is also adapting her novel LIFESAVER herself and has written an original TV drama called THE GULLIVERS. 

Louise lives in a South London neighbourhood not unlike the ones in her books with her husband, daughter, 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. 

For Book publishing inquiries – contact Sheila Crowley sheila.crowley@curtisbrown.co.uk