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Sarah Vaughan

Biography

Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Vaughan studied English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. She spent 11 years at The Guardian as a news reporter and political correspondent before leaving to freelance and write fiction. Her first thriller, ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL, was an instant international bestseller, translated into 24 languages, and is available to stream on Netflix as a worldwide number one series starring Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery and Rupert Friend. Her bestselling novel, LITTLE DISASTERS, has also been optioned for television, as has REPUTATION, her fifth novel.

Photo Credit: Philip Mynott 

Books by Sarah Vaughan

by Sarah Vaughan - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

As a politician, Emma has sacrificed a great deal for her career --- including her marriage and her relationship with her daughter, Flora. A former teacher, the glare of the spotlight is unnerving for Emma, particularly when it leads to countless insults, threats and trolling as she tries to work in the public eye. Fourteen-year-old Flora is encountering heartless bullying. When another teenager takes her own life, Emma lobbies for a new law to protect women and girls from the effects of online abuse. Now, Emma and Flora find their personal lives uncomfortably intersected…but then the unthinkable happens. A man is found dead in Emma’s home. A man she had every reason to be afraid of and to want gone.

by Sarah Vaughan - Fiction, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

She is a stay-at-home mother of three with boundless reserves of patience, energy and love. After being friends for a decade, this is how Liz sees Jess. Then one moment changes everything. Dark thoughts and carefully guarded secrets surface --- and Liz is left questioning everything she thought she knew about her friend, and about herself. The truth can’t come soon enough.

by Sarah Vaughan - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Sophie Whitehouse has a lovely home, two adorable children, and a handsome, successful husband. But everything changes the night James comes home and confesses an indiscretion. It turns out that his revelation is just the tip of the iceberg: a larger scandal is about to explode. James stands accused of a terrible crime, and their family is shoved into the spotlight as his trial begins. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, another woman is working to destroy Sophie’s husband. Sophie remains convinced of James’ innocence and is desperate to protect her precious family from the rumors that threaten to rip them apart. Is James the guilty perpetrator or an innocent victim of a toxic agenda?

by Sarah Vaughan - Fiction, Women's Fiction

In 1966, Kathleen Eaden, cookbook writer and wife of a supermarket magnate, published The Art of Baking, her guide to nurturing a family by creating the most exquisite pastries, biscuits and cakes. Now, five amateur bakers are competing to become the New Mrs. Eaden.  As unlikely alliances are forged and secrets rise to the surface, making the choicest pastry seems the least of the contestants' problems. For they will learn --- just as Mrs. Eaden did before them --- that while perfection is possible in the kitchen, it's very much harder in life.