Category Archives: Sasha Dawson

The Woman In The Wood is out now!

I’m thrilled to say that my new crime thriller The Woman In The Wood is out. The second in the Sasha Dawson series, TWITW is about a former reality star who finds himself in a world of trouble when all his mates start getting murdered.

The Woman In The Wood is available to buy as ebook – you can get it here – or as a rather lovely hardback, with the paperback coming on June 10th.

The Woman In The Wood cover reveal…

It seems like forever since my last book The Bad Place came out, thanks to this darned pandemic, so I’m going to celebrate the end of lockdown by finally revealing to you the lush and evocative cover of the next Sasha Dawson thriller, The Woman In The Wood.

It’s about a former reality star who finds himself in a world of trouble when his mates get targeted by a vicious killer – what does it have to do with the disappearance of a young woman three years ago…? 

The Woman In The Wood is out on March 4th, and you can pre-order it right now from all the usual online places like Amazon.

The Bad Place ebook Is On Special Offer

Hello, everyone. What strange times we find ourselves living in. I hope you’re all keeping yourself safe and well in lockdown – until that blessed day we can all step blinking into the daylight. 

Before the world tipped on its axis, I was hoping to get back into the swing of things with some author updates. Sasha Book Two is almost, ALMOST, finished now. It’s with my publisher and we’re nearly done with the edits. I hoping to give you more details about that – a title, a cover! – very soon. 

In the meantime, if you haven’t read the first Sasha Dawson thriller, The Bad Place, I’m delighted to say the ebook is on special offer – at 99p for a limited period. A Times Crime Book of the Month, The Bad Place will transport you to the seaside for some sun, sand and sinister shenanigans – even if you can’t go there yourself right now.

You can download it right here!

The Bad Place Is Crime Book Of The Month In The Times

My latest crime novel The Bad Place has been out as an ebook and in hardback for more than a week now and I’m thrilled to say that the response from readers, from bloggers and reviewers, has been fabulous. And I was particularly pleased to discover that not only was it reviewed in The Times newspaper on Saturday – in which it was described as ‘sharp, funny, moving and tremendously exciting’ –  but it was also named The Times crime Book Of The Month in September, which is a fantastic accolade.

​Hopefully, I’ll have some more news to bring you very soo. But remember, it’s readers who really count, so if you’ve read and enjoyed The Bad Place, please do remember to leave a short review on Amazon – it really does help the book find a bigger audience!

The Bad Place Is Out Now!

Hi everyone, I’m thrilled to be able to tell you my new crime novel THE BAD PLACE is out now!

It’s the first in a new series about Sasha Dawson, a detective inspector with Essex Police. Sasha leads up a Major Investigation Team on the Essex coast. She’s an easy-going investigator and a harassed mum with a noisy family. I’m a little bit in love with Sasha – and I think you’ll fall for her too.

In Sasha’s first investigation she races against time to find a teenage girl who’s gone missing – and discover the connection to the notorious abductions that happened at The Bad Place…

 Here’s the blurb:


‘The newspapers called it The Bad Place. A remote farm out on the Thames estuary, where six children were held captive for two weeks. Only five came home.

That was twenty years ago. Now adults, they meet up annually to hold a candlelit vigil for their friend who died. The only rule is that no-one can talk about what happened the night they escaped. But at this year’s event, one of them witnesses a kidnapping. A young girl, Sammi, is bundled into a van in front of their eyes. 

Is history repeating itself? Is one of them responsible? Or is someone sending them a twisted message? DI Sasha Dawson, of Essex Police, is certain that the key to finding Sammi lies in finding out the truth about The Bad Place. But she also knows that with every second she spends trying to unlock the past, the clock ticks down for the missing girl…’


The Bad Place is out in hardback and as an ebook, with the paperback coming in March ’20. You can get your copy right now from Amazon and Kobo, and at your local bookshop.

I hope you enjoy it!