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Rona Halsall

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Rona is the #1 best selling author of twisty psychological thrillers and loves to create mayhem in her characters' lives to keep her readers guessing. She lives halfway up a mountain in Snowdonia, North Wales with her three dogs - Maid, Evie and Sandy who are the writing support team.

She is an outdoorsy person, who loves nothing better than stomping up a mountain, and wandering round forests and woodlands while she's plotting her next book. Outside is where the ideas are!

The peak of her writing career was being short-listed for the International Thriller Writers Awards 2024, for THE BIGAMIST. The translation was also shortlisted for an award in Holland.

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Publication Day for The Gossip!

My new book, The Gossip, is out today!

Lots of early readers are loving it, but this quote sums it up:

'Tense, addictive, and packed with small-town secrets, this was a brilliant read.'

You check it out here: https://mybook.to/thegossip

One rumour can lead to murder...

Nia – a young widow with a little boy – has just moved house. Breathing in the fresh air from her new doorstep in the pretty rural vill Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.81 · 34,426 ratings · 3,625 reviews · 17 distinct worksSimilar authors
Love You Gone

3.87 avg rating — 4,598 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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The Bigamist

3.65 avg rating — 4,566 ratings — published 2023 — 20 editions
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One Mistake

3.83 avg rating — 4,132 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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The Honeymoon

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The Getaway

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The Ex Boyfriend

4.02 avg rating — 1,720 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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Her Mother's Lies

3.93 avg rating — 1,707 ratings — published 2019 — 4 editions
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The Fiancé

4.02 avg rating — 1,637 ratings9 editions
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The Liar's Daughter

3.95 avg rating — 1,515 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions
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The Wife Next Door

3.94 avg rating — 1,508 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions
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The Gossip by Rona Halsall
"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Gossip by Rona Halsall

Well… this was my first Rona Halsall book, and what an introduction.

I told myself, “Just one more chapter.” The book laughed. Two sittings later, I was turning the final page wondering where the day had disappeare" Read more of this review »
The Gossip by Rona Halsall
"Great book

Really enjoyed reading this book,a lot of twists and turns,would definitely recommend reading it. I shall read more from this author."
Rona and 11 other people liked Kristie's review of Adrift:
Adrift by Will Dean
"This book was just so gloomy. This was my first read by Will Dean. I've heard his writing can be dark, but this just left me feeling kind of depressed while reading it. I'll try more of his writing. I appreciate that the majority of the story was sca" Read more of this review »
Rona and 2 other people liked Megan's review of Adrift:
Adrift by Will Dean
"A depressing book about domestic violence and gaslighting.
It’s so well written, but just painful to read. Pretty much nothing positive happens at all until the last 20 minutes of the audiobook. "
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Such a Nice Girl by Andrea Mara
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Set in Ireland, this thriller really makes you question friendships and family and how you would deal with the moral dilemmas the author throws up. To say these people are dysfunctional is an understatement! It took me quite a while to work out who t ...more
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This was a tense tale of cat and mouse between estranged sisters and a desire for revenge from one of them. On the surface, the reunion seems to be by chance, or has it been manipulated to create a tense, final showdown? This was so well written, it ...more
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She Didn't See It Coming by Shari Lapena
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I've come to love this author's books. I like the way the reader gets to look at the problem from all the different perspectives - somehow that makes it all the more intriguing. A young mother disappears from her home. Nobody sees anything. Her life ...more
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" This book has been re-released by Boldwood Books on 7th June. Would it be possible for the new Boldwood cover to be used as the default cover from now ...more "
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I have enjoyed every book I've read by this author as she picks such interesting historical subject matter. This time, it's the first ladies football team and it makes you realise, with all the social commentary about restrictions on women at the tim ...more
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" If you'd carried on reading a little bit further you would have found out that they weren't twins at all... ...more "
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“What happened to teenagers? It was the weirdest thing. One minute they were all cuddly children wanting attention, the next it was like you had just stepped out of the grave and they couldn’t get away from you fast enough.”
Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“This was her world, where she'd felt safe bringing up a family, but she had a horrible feeling the past was about to repeat itself, rupturing the life she'd crafted, and there wasn't a thing she could do to stop it”
Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“Information is power, she thought as she walked away. And everyone needs an insurance policy, don't they?”
Rona Halsall, One Mistake

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
Beryl Markham

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