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Luca Veste
Agent: Kate Burke
Assistant: Sian Ellis-Martin
Bio: Luca Veste is a writer of Italian and Liverpudlian heritage. He is the author of eight novels, including the Murphy & Rossi series, and standalone novels THE BONE KEEPER and YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE. He is the co-organiser of the Locked Up Festival, which raised over £25,000 for the Trussell Trust, co-host of the Two Crime Writers and a Microphone podcast, and the bass player in the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. He studied psychology and criminology at the University of Liverpool. He is married with two daughters and lives in Merseyside.
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THE STRANGER IN THE ROOM
Thriller, 368 pages, Hodder & Stoughton, January 2025
Alison Lennon receives the worst news a parent can expect - her son, Ben, has been killed, in what looks at first like a random attack on a dark street in the middle of the night. Only, she knows that he isn't the first victim.
Mia Johnstone has just turned eighteen. Ready for the next phase of her life, she should be looking forward to university, studying, partying. Instead, she's thinking about how her boyfriend Ben is the third person close to her to have died.
Alison believes that Mia killed her son.
Mia needs people to stop calling her a killer.
TRUST IN ME
Thriller, 368 pages, Hodder & Stoughton, September 2023
Sara seems to have it all – a thriving practice as a trauma counsellor, a comfortable home, a loving husband and two children. A world away from her troubled childhood. She's the only one who knows that her entire life is built on a lie.
Until a new patient confesses to a crime that hits too close to home. Sara is thrown into a quest to hide the truth: from her family, her co-workers, and most importantly, the police.
How can this client know about Sara's past? And how can Sara silence her before it's too late? One thing is certain: she will do anything to keep her family safe.
YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE
Thriller, 368 pages, Hodder & Stoughton, February 2022
Sam was eleven when his mother went out and never came back. He waited for her and then he grieved for her, as his family fell apart around him. Sam tried to get on with his life in the intervening years. But it's only as his father lies dying that Sam begins to realise the cracks and inconsistencies in their family history.
Who was his mother and why did she need to disappear? Why cover it up? As Sam searches for answers, and the trial leads him from the UK to the US, danger builds around him...
Taut, thrilling and full of tension, YOU NEVER SAID GOODBYE is about a man who discovers his entire life is built on lies. But what price is the truth?
THE SIX
Thriller, 432 pages, Simon & Schuster, December 2019
Six friends have been trapped by one dark secret. It was supposed to be our last weekend away as friends, before marriage and respectability beckoned. But what happened that Saturday changed everything.
In the middle of the night, someone died. The six of us promised each other we would not tell anyone about the body we buried. But now the pact has been broken. And the killing has started again …
Who knows what we did? And what price will they make us pay?