‘C. L. Taylor’s writing is like a lid being screwed down. Tighter and tighter it gets, and you know at some point the drama will just explode.’ Jeremy Vine
C.L. Taylor is the nine times Sunday Times bestselling author of eleven gripping stand-alone psychological thrillers: THE ACCIDENT, THE LIE, THE MISSING, THE ESCAPE, THE FEAR, SLEEP, STRANGERS, HER LAST HOLIDAY, THE GUILTY COUPLE, EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE and her newest book, IT’S ALWAYS THE HUSBAND, published in paperback on 26 March 2026.
Her next hardback is NOTES ON AN OBSESSION published by Headline on 26 February 2027.
She’s the recipient of four Nielsen Silver Bestseller Awards and her books have sold over two million copies in the UK alone. They have also hit the number one spots on Amazon Kindle, Audible, Kobo, iBooks and Google Play.
They have been translated into over 30 languages and selected three times for the Richard and Judy Book Club (SLEEP, THE GUILTY COUPLE, EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE).
THE ESCAPE won a Dead Good Books award and SLEEP won a Capital Crime Readers’ Award. In 2021 CL Taylor was shortlisted for the CWA Dagger in the Library award.
She has also written two Young Adult thrillers, THE TREATMENT and THE ISLAND. The Island won the Portsmouth Book Award (Longer Novel) 2022 and the Warwickshire Year 9 Book Awards 2021.
C.L. Taylor has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology. In June 2024 she was awarded an honorary doctorate – Doctor of Letters – by Northumbria University, her alma mater, in recognition of her literary career. She lives in Bristol with her partner and son.
IT’S ALWAYS THE HUSBAND
One dead wife is tragic. Two looks like murder…
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Available now – TELL THEM NO LIES
Writing under her full name Cally Taylor, Tell Them No Lies is a collection of gripping, humorous, disturbing and devious crime short stories, available to buy on Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.au, Amazon.de and on other international Amazon sites.
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