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Delighted to announce that domestic suspense novel The Sisters is out soon from Bloodhound Books. They also recently republished my prize-winning suspense thriller Girl Out of Sight.

Lies Behind the Ruin, family noir set in France, is available from Amazon. A new edition of The Girl in the Van, winner of the Pageturner prize 2022 in the suspense and thriller category, will be out in January 2025.

I'm originally from Cardiff, studied English at Liverpool University and hold an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes. I've won prizes for flash fiction and short stories and been published in 'Artificium', Reflex Fiction, 1k story, ElipsisZine, Love Sunday, Scribble and in an eBook 'Garage 54 and other stories'.

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When Life Becomes Fiction - the inspiration behind my novel Lies Behind the Ruin

If you ever go on holiday to France, I’m guessing that, like me, you discover bargains in the supermarket and load up your trolley with wine and cheese. It’s easy to be tempted to get out the credit card and overspend. I do the same. But what I didn’t expect, while we were on a family camping holiday many years ago, was to come home having impulse-bought a house! And not even a habitable house. A Read more of this blog post »

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― Helen Matthews, If I Were You

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