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Clare Mackintosh

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

http://www.claremackintosh.com

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Genre

Crime, Memoir, Thriller

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August 2014

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Welcome to my Goodreads profile! Whether you're new to my work, or a hard-core fan, it's lovely to see you here. My latest book is OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES, the third book in my DC Ffion Morgan series. Like THE LAST PARTY and A GAME OF LIES, this is designed to be read as a standalone, but if you've followed Ffion and Leo from the beginning, I think you'll love seeing where OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES takes them.

If this is the first time we're meeting, welcome! In addition to the books above, I'm the author of I LET YOU GO, I SEE YOU, LET ME LIE and HOSTAGE - page-turning thrillers that have sold more than three million copies across 40 countries, and hit bestseller lists including The Sunday Times and The New York Times. I also wrote the emotional Welcome to my Goodreads profile! Whether you're new to my work, or a hard-core fan, it's lovely to see you here. My latest book is OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES, the third book in my DC Ffion Morgan series. Like THE LAST PARTY and A GAME OF LIES, this is designed to be read as a standalone, but if you've followed Ffion and Leo from the beginning, I think you'll love seeing where OTHER PEOPLE'S HOUSES takes them.

If this is the first time we're meeting, welcome! In addition to the books above, I'm the author of I LET YOU GO, I SEE YOU, LET ME LIE and HOSTAGE - page-turning thrillers that have sold more than three million copies across 40 countries, and hit bestseller lists including The Sunday Times and The New York Times. I also wrote the emotional rollercoaster, AFTER THE END: a family drama about an impossible choice that threatens to tear a couple apart. It's the most personal novel I've written, and I've loved hearing from readers who have connected with it. In 2024 I released a memoir, I PROMISE IT WON'T ALWAYS HURT LIKE THIS, based on my experiences of navigating grief following the loss of my son eighteen years ago. It's a book to offer hope when you feel as though there's none to be had; a book to give to a friend when you don't know what to say.

Coming in 2026 is what I'm boldly going to tell you is my best book yet... a standalone thriller with a twist that'll knock your socks off! It's called IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK, and I would love you to add it to your shelf right now!

I love connecting with my readers, and there are plenty of ways you can get a sneak peek at what's going on behind the scenes. My Facebook group offers reading recommendations and exclusive extras to members (just search online for 'The Clare Mackintosh Book Club'), or if it's general chit chat you're after, please do follow me on Instagram, where I go to avoid writing, and to share snippets of my life in rural Wales, complete with three spaniels and Pete the goat. I'm also on TikTok, much to the dismay of my three teenagers...

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With over three million copies of her books sold worldwide, number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of I Let You Go, which was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. It also won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016. She has since written seven more bestselling novels. Together, her books have been translated into 40 languages and spent more than sixty-five weeks in The Sunday Times bestseller lists.

Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies.

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For more information find Clare on Facebook, Instagram, Threads or TikTok at @ClareMackWrites

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Average rating: 3.91 · 466,227 ratings · 50,230 reviews · 29 distinct works • Similar authors

	I Let You Go 4.03 avg rating — 156,831 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I See You 3.86 avg rating — 83,123 ratings — published 2016 — 96 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hostage 3.88 avg rating — 53,175 ratings — published 2021 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Party (DC Morgan, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 52,942 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let Me Lie 3.80 avg rating — 43,489 ratings — published 2018 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After the End 4.03 avg rating — 29,360 ratings — published 2019 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Game of Lies (DC Morgan, #2) 3.79 avg rating — 19,442 ratings — published 2023 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Other People's Houses (DC Morgan, #3) 4.15 avg rating — 7,936 ratings — published 2025 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Donor 3.84 avg rating — 6,244 ratings — published 2020 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Promise It Won't Always Hurt Like This: Finding Comfort, Clarity, and Hope After Loss 4.52 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2023 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Independent Bookshop Week: my life in bookshops

It’s Independent Bookshop Week, here in the UK, and I’ve been thinking about the book stores I’ve been lucky enough to frequent over the years. Just as a house never feels like a home unless it has books in it, so a town without a bookshop always feels slightly underdressed. I have been fortunate enough […]

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“My steps feel lighter now and I realize it’s because I’m running toward something, and not away from it.”
― Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go

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“Such a small impact on the world, yet the very centre of my own.”
― Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go

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“Five years of someone's life is too much to lose over a throwaway comment.”
― Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go

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Polls

March Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books Move Onto Final Poll

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

by V.E. Schwab

7 votes, 17.1%

I Let You Go

by Clare Mackintosh

6 votes, 14.6%

The Girl in the Mirror

by Rose Carlyle

4 votes, 9.8%

Kitchens of the Great Midwest

by J. Ryan Stradal

4 votes, 9.8%

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

4 votes, 9.8%

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

by Allie Brosh

3 votes, 7.3%

The Water Keeper

by Charles Martin

3 votes, 7.3%

Heartburn

by Nora Ephron

3 votes, 7.3%

Fifty Words for Rain

by Asha Lemmie

2 votes, 4.9%

On the Come Up

by Angie Thomas

2 votes, 4.9%

Migrations

by Charlotte McConaghy

2 votes, 4.9%

Clap When You Land

by Elizabeth Acevedo

1 vote, 2.4%

You Should See Me in a Crown

by Leah Johnson

0 votes, 0.0%

41 total votes

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Jun 21, 2023 09:22AM

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message 4: by Sean

Jan 24, 2016 05:29AM

Hi Clare

see you tomorrow on " A Good Thriller". Sent a message to you through linked In and E-mail, although problem with e-mails !

Hope you will let all your friends and followers know about tomorrow and they will join " A Good Thriller"

regards

Sean

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message 3: by Sean

Dec 04, 2015 05:39AM

Hi Clare

Looking forward to your Q & A's with my group "A Good Thriller" on January 25th.

kind regards

Sean

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message 2: by Clare

Apr 09, 2015 09:13AM

I've added a new video: how books are made https://www.goodreads.com/videos/8249...

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message 1: by Clare

Nov 13, 2014 02:07AM

Amazon has 30% off the trade paperback of I Let You Go today, so if you're a 'real book' reader, now's your chance! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-You-Go-Cl...

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