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Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author of three novels, If I Die Before I Wake, Keep Him Close and What July Knew. Her books have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, won France’s Prix du Bureau des Lecteurs Folio Policier, longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, and been selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Waterstones said her second novel ‘cements Koch’s place as one of the most exciting new crime writers of our day’. She lives in Bristol.

Website: emilykoch.co.uk

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Emily Koch

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Title: What July Knew
Publisher: Harvill Secker / Vintage
Release date: 2023
Formats: Hardback, paperback, ebook, audio
ISBN: 1784709433

A moving family mystery set in the 90s about a girl trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death after she receives a note saying ‘your mother didn’t die in a car accident’. If only her family would stop lying to her, she might be able to discover the truth.

For readers of Joanna Cannon, Janice Hallett and Jo Browning Wroe.

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Title: Keep Him Close
Publisher: Harvill Secker / Vintage
Release date: 2020
Formats: Hardcover, paperback, ebook, audio
ISBN: 9781784709426

A dark domestic drama about the friendship that forms between a woman whose son has died and the mother of the boy accused of his murder.

Praise for Keep Him Close:

'A tense drama' Sunday Times

'A suspenseful mystery... deeply moving and psychologically affecting' Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient

'A magnetic, all consuming read. A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms.' Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait

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Title: If I Die Before I Wake
Publisher: Harvill Secker / Vintage
Release date: 2018
Formats: Hardcover, paperback, ebook, audio
ISBN: 9781784705718

A tense thriller told from the point of view of Alex, a young man with locked-in syndrome who discovers the accident which put him in hospital was no such thing - someone tried to kill him. Can he find out who was responsible before his family withdraw his life support?

Praise for If I Die Before I Wake:

‘Exhilarating’ Daily Mail

‘Beautifully written’ Cara Hunter, bestselling author of All the Rage

'This is a debut to be reckoned with' Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA STEEL DAGGER AWARD 2018

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