Psychological Thrillers
An intricate and psychologically complex page-turner. BookLife Prize review.
Jenny vanished from Henley-on-Thames on the night of April 21st, 1968. We’d had a row, but I can’t remember what happened after that. She was never seen again. The next day, my mind was completely blank except for a deep sense of shame. I was so ashamed that I left town, leaving my friends and parents without a word of explanation. But her memory wouldn’t leave me alone. For the last fifty-odd years, a weird vision has plagued me, driving me close to insanity. It’s time to go back and find answers; otherwise, I can never rest in peace. Without memory, we are nothing.
Without memory, we are nothing.
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The truth isn’t waiting for Maya.
It’s hunting her.
Maya Jardine’s mother vanished when she was a baby. For her eighteenth birthday, her father promised to explain why. But when he doesn’t show, Maya’s world begins to fall apart. Then comes the voice message: his panicked scream, cut short by a single word that chills her to the bone.
Dawn.
Is this her mother? A warning of new beginnings? Or something more sinister? Maya struggles to uncover the truth, finding herself in a web of deceit and fear that stretches far beyond her hometown of Wareham in Dorset. Every terrifying twist and turn edges her closer to answers, and closer to a darkness that wants her silenced.
Inspired by the author’s own story of living with fear from a family member.
To be published in 2026