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Imran Mahmood is a practicing barrister with thirty years’ experience fighting cases in courtrooms across the country. His previous novels have been highly critically acclaimed: You Don’t Know Me was a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice, Goldsboro Book of the Month and was shortlisted for the Glass Bell Award; both this and I Know What I Saw were longlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year and the CWA Gold Dagger. You Don’t Know Me was also made into a hugely successful BBC1 adaptation in association with Netflix. When not in court or writing novels or screenplays he can sometimes be found on the Red Hot Chilli Writers’ podcast as one of their regular contributors. He hails from Liverpool but now lives in London with his wife and daughters. @imranmahmood777
I loved it, so smart and the plot twists blew me away. Imran is the only author writing about a missing person that deals with grief this well -- Gillian McAllister A clever, chilling thriller that is also unexpectedly moving -- Shari Lapena Finding Sophie is a rare accomplishment. By turns a heart-stopping thriller, a heartfelt mystery, and a powerful study of grief, hope, and the unbreakable bond between parent and child. Brilliant -- Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End This thrilling and emotional roller coaster moved me tears with its powerful portrayal of the agonies of parental love and loss. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Imran Mahmood has excelled himself with this clever, heart-breaking thriller -- Jo Callaghan, author of In the Blink of an Eye What an exciting and compulsive read! Two parents with the same goal afraid to tell each other how far they are prepared to go, but they are not the only ones keeping secrets. Imran has surpassed my expectations with an astonishingly twisty tale of despair, deception and desperation -- Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond Finding Sophie is a Domestic Noir objet d'art. Mahmood's writing is exceptionally beautiful for a crime genre novel. The tension he manages to weave within such accessible and recognisable human emotions is genuinely extraordinary, and the pacing hits a real punch because you spend the entire book just wanting it all to turn out all right. Brilliant, bated-breath stuff -- Helen Fields, author of The Institution Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood is his best yet. Beautifully written, visceral, evocative and compelling - but with a plot that keeps you guessing to the end. So much more than a legal thriller, this is a work of pure brilliance -- Janice Hallett One of the best and most intelligent thrillers I've read in a long while. Written with such skill that you forget you're reading a novel and just get lost in the story. Gripping, moving, brilliant -- Anna Mazzola
