Touchingly effective in conveying a childhood lived in fear Sunday Times
Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author of two novels, If I Die Before I Wake and Keep Him Close. Her bookshave 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.