Est. 2016Northern Spain
GREGG DUNNETT
Spring 2026 · Dispatches
Cantabrian coast
Clifftop pasture, more or less the office
The Books

Fifteen psychological thrillers. And counting.

Standalones

Nine novels, nine different worlds.

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The latest 2025

Deep Blue Lies

Ava Whitaker, kicked out of medical school, flies to a half-abandoned Greek island looking for the father her mother won't talk about. What she finds at the old Aegean Dream Resort is far worse than nothing. The novel I built a whole hotel for — see /boxes for the full story.

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The Cove

A widow looking for a fresh start takes a clifftop house with ocean views. The view turns out to be the easiest part. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb in your voice.]

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Standalone 2024

The Lake House Children

Three sisters share a lake house in New England. After a terrible fire, the youngest's young son begins to speak as if he remembers a life that ended before his began. A psychological thriller about the truths families bury — and the science that can't quite explain children who claim to have lived before.

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Audible Nº 1 (UK & US) 2023

Little Ghosts

"One moment my beautiful daughter, her face flushed from the sun, her curls still wet from splashing in the ocean, was waiting in line for a strawberry ice cream. The next she was gone." A mother. A missing child. A village that knows more than it's saying.

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Falling from Grace

A killing nobody can prove, told from the only perspective that knows. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb in your voice.]

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The Glass Tower

A debut novelist with a secret learns the hard way that nothing stays hidden. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb in your voice.]

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The Desert Run

Two recent graduates with no money and no plan stumble into a way to reverse their fortunes overnight — if the people they've taken it from don't catch up first. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb in your voice.]

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The Girl on the Burning Boat

A businessman dies in a boat fire. His daughter doesn't believe it was an accident, and begins to suspect her father wasn't who she thought he was either. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb in your voice.]

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Standalone 2017

The Wave at Hanging Rock

A doctor's husband dies at sea in circumstances she can't reconcile. The deeper she looks, the less sense it makes — and the less safe she feels asking. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb in your voice.]

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The Rockpools series · 04 books

Billy Wheatley. An eleven-year-old detective who got older.

Starting with the Amazon Nº 1 The Things You Find in Rockpools, currently in TV development. Read in order if you can.

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Rockpools · Book 01 Amazon Nº 1 · TV in development

The Things You Find in Rockpools

A summer holiday on a remote island. A missing teenage girl. And the eleven-year-old boy who decides to find her himself. The book that introduced Billy Wheatley, and the one currently being adapted for the screen.

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Rockpools · Book 02

The Lornea Island Detective Club

Fourteen years old, briefly famous for solving one case, Billy Wheatley sets up shop as the Lornea Island Detective Club. The first client brings exactly the kind of problem he was hoping for. [Gregg: tighten the blurb.]

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Rockpools · Book 03

The Appearance of Mystery

Billy travels to Australia to research great white sharks. Then someone on the project disappears, and his summer of fieldwork turns into something else entirely. [Gregg: tighten the blurb.]

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Rockpools · Book 04

The Island of Dragons

Billy is at college on the mainland, struggling to settle into anything that isn't an investigation. Then a death pulls him back to Lornea Island, and he isn't sure he wants to leave again. [Gregg: tighten the blurb.]

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Detective Erica Sands · 02 books, 02 coming

The longest case has a personal cost.

Book 3 left readers on a cliffhanger. Book 4 (working title The Calm) is in progress. [Gregg: confirm or rewrite this intro.]

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Erica Sands · Book 01

The Trap

Detective Erica Sands is called to an isolated cottage on the moors. The crime scene tells one story. The woman who lived there tells another. [Gregg: tighten the blurb.]

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Erica Sands · Book 02

The Hunt

Erica Sands hunts an escaped serial killer who happens to be her own father. [Gregg: rewrite the blurb. Also book 3 left readers on a cliffhanger and book 4 (working title "The Calm") is being written — worth flagging here.]

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Other work

A free novella, and one for the kids.

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Killing Kind

A killer leaves clues at every crime. A detective races to find him before the next one. A short, sharp introduction to the way I write — free when you sign up to the newsletter.

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Children's · Co-written with my kids

The Hole in Casey's Garden

A watercolour-illustrated children's book I made with the kids — written together, properly illustrated, printed in China, sold in America. See the project page for the full story.

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