Colette McBeth is the TV reporter turned novelist whose debut thriller garnered a plethora of glowing reviews when it was published in 2013. I loved Precious Thing and the good news is that McBeth’s second novel is out this week. In less capable hands The Life I Left Behind could have been a confusing jumble of a book. The action flicks back and forward in time and the story is ...keep reading
If Colette McBeth’s name sounds familiar it’s probably because she worked as a BBC TV news reporter for ten years. During that time she covered a host of notorious crime stories and became fascinated by the ways in which perpetrators of heinous crimes attempt to hide their crimes. Two years ago, however, she won a place on the Faber Academy writing course and began working on her debut novel. The ...keep reading