Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for London-based husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. Collette is a journalist and editor, the former features editor at Stylist, content director of Elle and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Sunday Times as well as two travel books. Paul is the author of two previous novels, Welcome to the Working Week and Every Day is Like Sunday. He is the program director for English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of Surrey. People Like Her is their first novel.
The Last Place You Look (2026) Nikki Smith "Utterly gripping, this safari setting delivers the perfect atmospheric summer thriller. Smart, taut and twisty as hell."
The Good Listener (2026) Holly Watt "It's so rare to read a truly original thriller plot, but this is one. Watt's plotting is so clever that this is a book that you immediately want to reread to collect all the clever clues and misdirections. The interactions between the two women are more than a game of cat and mouse - they're almost a dance. This is the perfect book club book -- there is so much to think about that you're left dying to talk to someone about it!"
The Ending Writes Itself (2026) Evelyn Clarke "Fiendishly clever and compulsively readable, The Ending Writes Itself is both a page turning locked room mystery and a gimlet-eyed look at the business of writing books. An absolute must read."
Based on a True Story (2026) Sarah Vaughan "What's not to love? A matriarch with buried secrets, an explosive party at a clifftop house and a family rapidly unravelling - a deliciously twisty page-turner that also packs a real emotional punch. Vaughan is simply a genius at immersing you in simmering tensions and turning up the heat."
Witch Trial (2026) Harriet Tyce "A legal thriller unlike any you've ever read, this witchy, mind-melting page-turner is Tyce at her whip-smart best."
Too Old For This (2025) Samantha Downing "Deliciously dark and utterly addictive, this is a super-smart thrill ride with a lot to say about the way women are treated as they age and one of the most wickedly witty anti-heroines of all time! Brilliant!"
The Break-in (2025) Katherine Faulkner "A fast-paced, single-sitting read with a how-did-I-miss-that final twist. Faulkner writes motherhood noir that's a cut above - we'll be recommending this to every parent in the playground. Loved it!"
The Last Ferry Out (2025) Andrea Bartz "Set on a paradise island that won't divulge its deadly secrets, this twisty, breathless page-turner is at once a scorching destination thriller and an emotive exploration of how well we can ever know even those who have our hearts. . . . Loved it!"
The Cliffhanger (2025) Emily Freud "A pair of married crime writers (just like us) in a toxic game of cat and mouse (not like us, most days . . . ) - what a killer premise for a thriller! This is a sun-soaked page-turner packed with deliciously terrible people and twist after twist. Loved it!"
You Killed Me First (2025) John Marrs "Three deliciously devious women and a suburban setting alight with toxic secrets makes for an absolute scorcher of a read. Taut, smart, and breathlessly twisty-a surefire hit."
Saltwater (2025) Katy Hays "A riveting, atmospheric, elegantly written, and twist-packed tale . . . brilliant!"
You Can't Hurt Me (2024) Emma Cook "An elegantly-written novel, this is a compellingly twisty thriller which explores brilliantly the relationship between pain, memory, our bodies and ourselves. An absolutely gripping read which comes together with a neatness that is both satisfying and chilling."
Till Death Do Us Part (2024) Laurie Elizabeth Flynn "An intoxicating, atmospheric and twist-packed testament to the impossibility of truly knowing even those we love the most."
Teddy (2024) Emily Dunlay "Teddy is a glitteringly glamorous and gossipy trip to 1960s Rome with a chaotically charming protagonist and a transporting setting, all with a mystery at its heart. Dunlay's gorgeously immersive novel will fill a Lessons in Chemistry shaped hole on your shelf (and heart)."
Father's Day (2024) Richard Madeley "Taut, twisty and unsettling, this single-sitting thriller will have you racing through the pages with a knot in your stomach. Loved it!"
Guide to Murder (2024) (Antique Hunter's, book 1) C L Miller "Irresistible, immersive, and completely unputdownable. Think the Antiques Roadshow meets Miss Marple with a deliciously OTT cast of characters and twist after twist after twist."
One of the Good Guys (2024) Araminta Hall "Scorching, smart, and soaked in feminist rage, this is a suspense that stays with you long after the last page."
Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge (2024) Lizzie Pook "From the boisterous gallows crowd to the ice fields of the Arctic, Pook conjures up a compellingly vivid scene. A rip-roaring and guillotine-sharp critique of Victorian 'murder mania'. I couldn't tear myself away."
The Square (2023) Celia Walden "Secrets, lies and serious property envy - this taut, twisty and tense thriller feels like peeking through every window on the street you wished you lived. Fans of Lianne Moriarty and Louise Candlish will race through it."
Just Another Missing Person (2023) Gillian McAllister "The new queen of the what-would-you-do crime thriller is back witha tightly-plotted and twist-packed tale which will send your head spinning and have you asking how far you would go to protect your child. Be prepared to read it twice and kick yourself [for] the clever clues you missed the first time round!"
Fair Rosaline (2023) Natasha Solomons "Exquisitely written, wonderfully lyrical and richly immersive - this a story we all know made fresh and chillingly relevant, refracted through a feminist lens."
Bad Summer People (2023) Emma Rosenblum "Packed with sun-soaked secrets, outrageous scandals and salacious gossip...Ithe caustic wit dripping from each page make this a perfect rich-people-behaving-badly beach read. Loved it!"
Looking Glass Sound (2023) Catriona Ward "Murder, magic and monsters from the deep: Ward weaves her dark magic once again in this atmospheric, horror-drenched coming-of-age tale, with twist after head-spinning twist."
Strange Sally Diamond (2023) Liz Nugent "Just like Sally herself, this book is absolutely unique. Dark, gripping, unsettling - it pulls off that rarest of feats, combining characters you truly care for with gasp-inducing twists and turns. Loved it!"
The Mother (2023) T M Logan "A true single-sitting read, The Mother is the best yet from the master of the heartbreaking, heart-pounding, head-spinning thriller."
Auld Acquaintance (2022) Sofia Slater "With razor-sharp wit, a whip-smart plot and an eerily unsettling island location - this is pretty much the perfect modern murder mystery. A proper page turner."
Hide and Seek (2022) Andrea Mara "Mara knows how to take every parent's worst nightmares and turn them into top-class page turners. She expertly ratchets up the tension in this single-sitting read, a nerve-shredder that will have you guessing right until the final unexpected twist."
Good Rich People (2022) Eliza Jane Brazier "Taut, chilling, and completely original...elegantly explores the chasm between the haves and the have-nots."
