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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan read English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. After eleven years at the Guardian working as a news reporter, health correspondent and political correspondent, she started freelancing. The Art of Baking Blind is her first novel and she is now working on her second. Sarah lives near Cambridge with her husband and two small children.

Genres: Mystery, General Fiction

New and upcoming books

March 2026

Based on a True Story

Novels

   The Art of Baking Blind (2014)
   The Farm at the Edge of the World (2016)
   Anatomy of a Scandal (2018)
   Little Disasters (2019)
   Reputation (2022)
   Based on a True Story (2026)

Award nominations

	2023 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Reputation
	2019 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : Anatomy of a Scandal
	2019 CrimeFest: Sounds of Crime Award (nominee) : Anatomy of a Scandal

Sarah Vaughan recommends

The Cut Throat Trial (2025)
S J Fleet
"Not so much a front row seat in a murder trial as a journey inside the minds of the necessarily unreliable defendants, judge and counsel, The Cut Throat Trial is both scathing examination of the criminal justice system and an astute, empathetic, and satisfyingly twisty read. . . I'll be thinking about this one for quite some time."

The Last Truths We Told (2025)
Holly Watt
"Seriously good. Ingenious plotting and the sort of writing that makes you pause and wish you'd penned that. Plus Dartmoor, in all its mercurial, desolate beauty is brilliantly rendered. I could absolutely see this on a screen."

The Midnight Hour (2024)
Eve Chase
"An Eve Chase novel is always a sumptuous treat, and The Midnight Hour is perhaps her best yet. Exquisitely written, it's immersive, propulsive and as intricately constructed as the antique clocks which herald each lonely midnight hour. As ever, it's her characterisation that stands out, and her depiction of the joy and precariousness of first love, enjoyed by Maggie and Wolf. With whispers of One Day, and a story reaching back into nineties Notting Hill and Paris, this is a novel to immerse yourself in this summer: lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping, with a dark undercurrent, but ultimately redemptive and hopeful. A true treat of a book."

The New Wife (2023)
J P Delaney
"A characteristically unsettling thriller with an unreliable narrator who reels you in and a twist that made me pivot. With its sultry Mallorcan setting and du Maurier allusions, this is a summer read which exudes menace and is crying out for a TV adaptation."

Idol (2022)
Louise O'Neill
"Sharp and sharply plotted, muscular, propulsive, visceral. So good on illusion and self-delusion; the lies we tell ourselves and each other; the damage of toxic friendships, and the legacy of betrayal or imagined betrayal. There were phrases that stopped me in my tracks, they resonated so hard. I hope it flies far higher than Samantha Miller."

Into the Dark (2022)
(DS Saul Anguish, book 1)
Fiona Cummins
"Complex. Iventing. Twisting. Unsettling."

Tell Me Your Lies (2022)
Kate Ruby
"Chilling in its depiction of manipulation and the impact of childhood trauma; fast-paced and twisting."

Five Strangers (2021)
E V Adamson
"Meticulously plotted with an ending I really didn’t see coming."

The Push (2021)
Ashley Audrain
"Stayed up too late finishing [Audrain's] deeply unsettling The Push about the darkest reaches of motherhood . . . Visceral, provocative, compulsive, and with the most graphic and relatable description of childbirth I've read (or written)."

The House (2020)
Imogen Robertson and Tom Watson
"A prescient page-turner about secrets, lies, ruthless ambition and betrayal."

Mr Nobody (2020)
Catherine Steadman
"Cinematic and gripping."

The Lying Room (2019)
Nicci French
"You know a book's gripping when you sneak away at any opportunity to read it. Meticulously plotted, psychologically astute."

Whisper Network (2019)
Chandler Baker
"Slick, smart, fierce, it's Big Little Lies set against attorneys and recast in the light of #metoo. Relevant, resonant and rage inducing."

The Hunting Party (2018)
Lucy Foley
"Secrets, lies, good plotting."

Our House (2018)
Louise Candlish
"I raced through it this weekend. Such a smart idea. Twisty, warped, credible. Brilliantly plotted and compelling. Deserves to be such a hit."

The Man Who Didn't Call (2017)
Rosie Walsh
"Beautifully written with a clever twist, and an ending that made me cry."

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