Tammy Cohen (who was previously published under her formal name Tamar Cohen) is a freelance journalist. A late starter to fiction - and to other things besides - she has now written four novels:The Mistress's Revenge, The War of the Wives, Someone Else's Wedding, and The Broken. Now embarking on psychological suspense, Dying for Christmas is her first Yuletide chiller to be published October 2014. She is a Writer in Residence at Kingston University and lives in North London with her partner and three (nearly) grown children, plus one very badly behaved dog. Follow her on Twitter @MsTamarCohen
The Rush (2025) Beth Lewis "Stirring, evocative, spellbinding. The Rush is storytelling at its solid gold best."
The Gardeners' Club (2025) Marnie Riches "Funny and fresh. Full of heart and characters you genuinely root for. Marnie Riches is blooming brilliant."
Notes on a Drowning (2025) Anna Sharpe "Two women united by a painful secret take on the establishment in this tense, big-hearted, super-smart legal thriller. Anna Sharpe is one to watch."
The Midnight Hour (2024) Eve Chase "An exquisitely-written, immersive mystery full of loss and longing and boho glamour with a sharp undercurrent of darkness. Brings back to life a Notting Hill that has long since disappeared."
The Book of Secrets (2024) Anna Mazzola "Dark, viscerally-atmospheric, richly-imagined. The Book of Secrets is steeped in period detail, political intrigue and moral murkiness. Few writers bring the sordid stench of history to life quite like Anna Mazzola."
My Name Was Eden (2024) Eleanor Barker-White "Complex, dark, utterly gripping. Barker-White compellingly peels back the layers of family life revealing the diseased heart at its core. Had me reading far too late into the night."
The Babysitter (2023) Emma Curtis "Creepy and addictive. Activate your 'do not disturb' because you will NOT be able to stop reading until you turn the last page."
All Of Us Are Broken (2023) (DS Saul Anguish, book 2) Fiona Cummins "Fearless. Visceral. Heartbreaking. Fiona Cummins takes a deep dive into the brutality and the humanity that coexist inside each and every one of us."
The Girls of Summer (2023) Katie Bishop "Smart, tense and on-the-nose about shame and coercion and the way we force our own painful histories into a narrative we can live with."
Strange Sally Diamond (2023) Liz Nugent "Strange Sally Diamond peels your heart with a paring knife in one continuous paper-thin coil. Dark, disturbing, utterly compelling."
End of Story (2023) Louise Swanson "Inventive, original, moving. END OF STORY has a unique premise and a heart-wrenching drop-the-book twist."
Just Got Real (2022) Jane Fallon "Witty, smart, topical and full of heart...the sun-lounger smash of the summer."
Sorry Isn't Good Enough (2022) Jane Bailey "Richly-textured, compelling, emotionally complex. Squeezes your heart until the very last page."
The Herd (2022) Emily Edwards "Gripping, thought-provoking, moving and oh-so-topical, The Herd tackles the most divisive parenting issue of our age with skill and compassion. Fans of Jodi Picoult will DEVOUR it."
A Narrow Door (2021) (Malbry, book 4) Joanne Harris "A complex, chilling mystery full of shifting truths and dark corners where the unburied past lies in wait."
Anna Bailey "Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets and the dark, shameful underbelly of small town life."
Gill Paul "An intoxicating mix of glamour, scandal and fascinating insight into the lives of two of the twentieth century’s most iconic women – and the man they both loved."
Finders, Keepers (2020) Sabine Durrant "Gripping, chilling, perfectly nuanced. No one does creepy moral ambiguity quite like Sabine Durrant."
Heatstroke (2020) Hazel Barkworth "A scorching tale of obsession, betrayal and the wounds that mothers and daughters inflict on each other in the name of love."
Seven Lies (2020) Elizabeth Kay "Seven Lies is the perfect psych thriller - smart, dark and morally ambiguous. I loved it."
Lesley Kara "Pssst, have you heard... #TheRumour is a cracking thriller about the damage that idle gossip can wreak in a small town. I thought I had the twist worked out. Boy was I wrong!"
Miss Marley (2018) Vanessa Lafaye "An exquisite little jewel of a book in which heartbreak and hope twist around each other like the stripes of a Christmas candy cane. Brava Vanessa Lafaye and Rebecca Mascull."
A House of Ghosts (2018) W C Ryan "Spooks, spies, seances, things that go bump in the night - A House of Ghosts has it all. A tremendously enjoyable, ingeniously-plotted take on the haunted house mystery. Best read before dark!"
The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp (2018) Sarra Manning "A lacerating, witty take-down of modern manners in the Instagram era. Bright, beautiful and gloriously Machiavellian, Becky Sharp is the anti-heroine we deserve."
The Cliff House (2018) Amanda Jennings "Beautifully written, richly evocative, with characters and setting that creep into your very bones."
Our Kind of Cruelty (2018) Araminta Hall "Addictive and disturbing - like watching a slow motion car-crash through splayed fingers."
Bitter (2018) Francesca Jakobi "A moving, powerful story of love, obsession, guilt, lies and the lengths we'll go to for a second chance."
The Daughter (2018) Lucy Dawson "Gulped this down in a single sitting. Believable characters, intriguing central hook and a plot that hurtles along until the final page."
