Look Twice
Same face. A different story.
Preston → Vietnam
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Look Twice
Thrillers that take ordinary lives and pull a single thread until everything unravels. Each one stands on its own; some weave together.
Café owner Nathan's ordinary life shatters when he meets Lan, a student haunted by a voice in her head. Matching silver necklaces pull them into a conspiracy of memory and identity.
Open the fileNewly engaged, Nathan and Lan travel to Vietnam, where family introductions turn into a dangerous hunt for the truth. Love becomes leverage as old secrets surface.
Open the fileAn ordinary couple shelter a trafficked Vietnamese woman fleeing with stolen evidence, and the unlikeliest of found families forms around her for the most dangerous drive of their lives. All heart, dark humour and real danger. Not all lives are lived the same.
Open the fileMai is still out there. The search pulls the found family into the murky world of cuckooing and county lines, and a house that is not what it seems. The sequel to The Other Lotus Girl.
Open the fileSeason One is a full dramatisation with a different voice for every character, and it pulls you straight into the chase. Start at Episode One, free.
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“Brilliant book.”
“She escaped the traffickers. Now the real chase begins. It was supposed to be an ordinary Thursday evening in Guildford. But when a terrified young woman throws herself into Stuart Henderson's car begging for …”
“The premise is dark — very dark in places — but the characters bring so much warmth and personality to the story. Stuart, Martin, John and Barbara are such an unlikely group that I …”
“A battered Nissan Micra. A terrified trafficking survivor. A seventy-three-year-old woman with attitude. What could possibly go wrong? Well... pretty much everything. This is one of those books that starts with a simple situation …”
“I loved this. Not an easy read, obviously, because of the subject matter, but it is incredibly readable. The story moves quickly and there is always another problem waiting around the corner. I liked …”
“I picked this up expecting a thriller and got rather more than I bargained for. Yes, there is plenty of danger and suspense, and the story certainly doesn't hang about. But what stayed with …”
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A British author from Northern England writing thrillers about ordinary people pulled into extraordinary danger, with a cinematic edge and a tight grip on tension. He grew up watching his father vanish into novels and never shook the obsession with story, character and hidden motives.
His debut, Janus Origin: Threads of Control, digs into memory, manipulation and identity. The Other Lotus Girl follows a trafficked Vietnamese woman and the strangers who risk everything to protect her, with the sequel The Cuckoo House out now.