Lucie Whitehouse was born in 1975 and grew up in Warwickshire. After studying Classics at Oxford, she moved to London where she worked briefly in journalism before finding her niche in publishing. She is the author of six novels: The House at Midnight; The Bed I Made, which was a Channel 4/TV Book Club pick; Before We Met, which was a Richard & Judy Summer Book Club and ITV Crime Thriller Book Club selection, and Keep You Close, published by Bloomsbury in 2016. Her first crime novel featuring DCI Robin Lyons, Critical Incidents, was published by Fourth Estate in 2019, followed by Risk of Harm, published in July 2021. Lucie’s latest Robin Lyons thriller, Last Witness, will be published by Orion in January 2024. Lucie now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

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