Lesley Kara
Writing Coach
Lesley Kara is a Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon No.1 internationally bestselling author of psychological thrillers. Her debut novel, The Rumor, was the highest-selling print crime fiction debut of 2019, the bestselling ebook of that year, and was shortlisted for the East Anglian Fiction Award, the Capital Crime/Amazon Publishing Best Debut Novel, and the Dead Good Books Cat and Mouse Award. It has been optioned for TV by Cuba Pictures and sold in over 18 territories. Who Did You Tell? was also a Sunday Times bestseller. Her books have earned high praise from Paula Hawkins, Lee Child, the Sunday Times, the Financial Times, Literary Review, and Booklist among others. Lesley regularly speaks at literary festivals across the U.K., including Bristol CrimeFest, Capital Crime, and Granite Noir, and co-hosts the crime fiction podcast, In Suspense. Lesley studied English and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at Greenwich University and worked as a lecturer before writing.
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Lesley Kara is a Sunday Times Top Ten and Amazon No.1 bestselling author of the psychological thrillers The Rumor, Who Did You Tell?, The Dare, The Apartment Upstairs and The Other Tenant.
The Rumor was the highest-selling print crime fiction debut of 2019 and the bestselling ebook of that year. It has been optioned for TV by Cuba Pictures and sold in over 18 territories. Her second novel was also a Sunday Times bestseller.
Lesley worked for many years as a lecturer and manager in a large college of further education in London. She now lives in Kent and writes full-time.
‘Lesley Kara keeps you guessing until the final page.’—Paula Hawkins, Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
Lesley’s Genres
- Crime & Suspense
- Psychological Thrillers
‘I don’t wait for inspiration before starting to write. If I did that, I’d probably only write a few times a year. Sitting down every day and forcing myself to write even when I’m not particularly in the mood for it is what brings results.’