Clare Mackintosh

Clare Mackintosh is a police officer turned crime writer and the multi-award-winning author of seven Sunday Times bestselling novels, including I Let You Go, which was the fastest-selling debut thriller in the year it was released. Translated into forty languages, her books have sold more than two million copies worldwide, have been New York Times and international bestsellers and have spent a combined total of 68 weeks in the Sunday Times bestseller chart.

In 2024 she published a memoir, I Promise it Won't Always Hurt Like This. Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies. She lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.