T.M.Logan
 

About

T.M.Logan

 
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Biography

 
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About TM Logan

Bestselling author TM Logan was a national newspaper journalist before turning to novel-writing full time. His thrillers have sold more than two million copies in the UK and are published in translation in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.

Tim’s latest novel, THE DREAM HOME, is about a family who move into a rambling Victorian villa and slowly come to realise that their ‘forever home’ has a very dark past indeed… It became a bestseller in its first week and is available now in hardback, e-book and audiobook.

THE MOTHER is a twisty tale of deceit and betrayal, of redemption and revenge - the story of a woman wrongfully convicted of the very worst crime and her fight for justice. His thriller THE CURFEW was also a Sunday Times bestseller, as was TRUST ME - described as ‘Everything you want from a thriller, and more...’

THE HOLIDAY was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and spent ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback Top 10, as well as hitting the #1 spots on Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks and Kobo. It has since been made into a four-part TV drama starring Jill Halfpenny and currently available on Netflix UK. His novel THE CATCH, about a father who becomes convinced his daughter is about to marry a man with terrible secrets, was also adapted for TV starring BAFTA-winner Jason Watkins and is also on Netflix UK.

His debut thriller LIES was one of Amazon UK's biggest ebooks of 2017 - winning a Silver Award at the Nielsen Bestseller Awards - and was followed by his second standalone, 29 SECONDS (2018).

He lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife and two children, and writes in a book-filled spare bedroom of his house. You can find him at www.tmlogan.com.


Biography

I was born in Berkshire and grew up in Reading, the youngest of three boys and a fully-fledged bookworm from a very young age. I read history at Westfield College, part of the University of London, and went on to do a postgrad at Cardiff University.

I knew I wanted to write so journalism seemed an obvious choice, and after five years as a reporter and then education correspondent on the Nottingham Evening Post I moved to London to work on the Daily Mail. At the Mail I became the paper’s Science Reporter, covering all kinds of stories from new technology to the environment, space, genetics, health and medicine. I enjoyed being a national newspaper journalist but it didn’t leave much time for anything else – like thriller writing.

The next move took me back to the East Midlands, where I went to work for the University of Nottingham as a press officer. In the evenings and at weekends, I wrote fiction. In fact whenever I had a spare half-hour, I wrote – on trains, planes, in bed, at the kitchen table before anyone else was up, by the pool while my kids had swimming lessons. After a few years I managed to secure representation from Camilla Bolton at the Darley Anderson Agency, and in January 2017 my first thriller Lies was published.

Two weeks after it came out as an e-book, I discovered that my day job – by this point I was a deputy director in charge of the university’s communications team – was being made redundant as part of a restructure. That was when I decided to take the plunge into writing full-time, which I have been doing since summer 2017. It’s a job that I love.

Lies turned out to be one of Amazon’s biggest e-books of 2017, as well as being the second bestselling fiction title of the year on Apple iBooks and no.1 on Kobo. So far it has received more than 2,000 5-star reviews on Amazon and sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK. Together with my second standalone thriller, 29 Seconds, my books are now published in 22 countries around the world including France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Romania and the Netherlands.

The Holiday takes place over a sweltering summer week in the south of France, as four best friends see the holiday of a lifetime turn into a nightmare of secrets, suspicion, betrayal and murder… The Holiday was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, spending ten weeks in the Sunday Times paperback Top 10 and selling more than 500,000 copies to date. It was made into a four-part drama for Channel 5 starring Jill Halfpenny and Owen McDonnell, now available on Netflix UK.

The Catch, my fourth book, tells the story of a father who becomes convinced his daughter is about to marry a man with terrible secrets. It has also been made into a four-part TV drama currently on Netflix and starring Jason Watkins, Poppy Gilbert, Aneurin Barnard and Cathy Belton.

My 2021 novel Trust Me has been described as ‘Everything you want from a thriller, and more...’ It was a Sunday Times bestseller in hardback and is also available in paperback, e-book and audiobook.

The Curfew follows the events of a hot midsummer's night, when five teenagers go up to the woods to celebrate the end of exams, and only four come out...

The Mother is about a woman wrongfully convicted of her husband’s murder who emerges from prison years later determined to find out who framed her.

My latest novel, The Dream Home, follows the story of a family who move into a rambling Victorian house, only to discover there are some dark secrets contained within its walls… The Dream Home became a top ten bestseller in its first week and is available now in hardback, ebook and audiobook.

When I’m not writing, I spend my spare time watching box sets on the TV, playing tennis badly and supporting the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team. Of course, I’m still a bookworm as well: I love the pull of a great book, one that you want to read on the bus, in the bath, at the dinner table, under the desk at work. Those are the kind of stories that I write.

I live in Nottinghamshire with my wife and two children, and write in a book-filled spare bedroom of my house.

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Praise for T.M.Logan

Reviews

Assured, compelling, and hypnotically readable
— Lee Child
A tense and gripping thriller
— B A Paris
So gripping I genuinely found it hard to put down
— K L Slater
Positively riveting
— Sandra Brown