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B.A. Paris
B.A. Paris is the Sunday Times and New York Times multi million copy bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, The Breakdown, Bring Me Back, The Dilemma, The Therapist and The Prisoner. Her books have sold in 42 languages territories around the world.
She was brought up in England and moved to France where she spent some years working as a trader in an international bank before re-training as a teacher and setting up a language school with her husband. She now lives in Surrey with her husband.

The Prisoner
THEN
Amelie has always been a survivor, from losing her parents as a child in Paris to making it on her own in London. As she builds a career for herself in the magazine industry, she meets, and agrees to marry, Ned Hawthorne.
NOW
Amelie wakes up in a pitch-black room, not knowing where she is. Why has she been taken? Who are her mysterious captors? And why does she soon feel safer here, imprisoned, than she had begun to feel with her husband Ned?
In true B.A. Paris style, The Prisoner is a gripping survival story, a twisted tale of love and at its dark heart a thriller to keep you up all night.
Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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UK & Commonwealth | Hodder & Stoughton |
North America | St Martin's Press |
France | Hugo et Cie |
Norway | Gyldendal |

The Therapist
When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive...
As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating, grisly secret about her new home, and begins to feel a strong connection with Nina, the therapist who lived there before.
Alice becomes obsessed with trying to piece together what happened two years before. But no one wants to talk about it. Her neighbours are keeping secrets and things are not as perfect as they seem...
The million-copy Sunday Times bestselling author B A Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in this powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret.
Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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UK & Commonwealth | MIRA |
North America | St Martin's Press |
Czech | Albatros Media |
Denmark | Jentas |
Estonia | Pegasus |
France | Hugo et Cie |
Greece | Harlenic |
Israel | Kinneret |
Italy | Editrice Nord |
Korea | BY4M |
Lithuania | Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers |
Norway | Gyldendal |
Poland | Albatros |
Romania | Trei |
Russia | Sindbad |
Sweden | Jentas |
The Netherlands | Ambo Anthos |
Turkey | Dogan |

The Dilemma
It’s Livia’s 40th birthday and she’s having the party of a lifetime to make up for the wedding she never had. Everyone she loves will be there except her daughter Marnie, who’s studying abroad. But although Livia loves Marnie, she’s secretly glad she won’t be at the party. She needs to tell Adam something about their daughter but she’s waiting until the party is over so they can have this last happy time together.
Adam wants everything to be perfect for Livia so he’s secretly arranged for Marnie to come home and surprise her on her birthday. During the day, he hears some terrible news. He needs to tell Livia, because how can the party go on? But she’s so happy, so excited – and the guests are about to arrive.
The Dilemma – how far would you go to give someone you love a last few hours of happiness?
Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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UK & Commonwealth | HQ |
US | St Martin's Press |
Albania | Living Publishing House |
Czech | Albatros Media |
Denmark | Jentas |
Estonia | Pegasus |
Finland | Gummerus |
France | Hugo et Cie |
Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
Hungary | Muvelt Nep |
Iceland | N29 |
Italy | Editrice Nord |
Korea | Mireatimes |
Norway | Gyldendal |
Poland | Albatros |
Portugal | Presenca |
Russian | Sindbad |
Russian Audio streaming | Sindbad |
Slovakia | Albatros Media |
Spain | Alianza |
Sweden | Jentas |
The Netherlands | Ambo Anthos |





Bring Me Back
A young British couple are driving through France on vacation when they stop at a service station. He runs in to use the restroom, she stays in the car. When he returns, her car door has been left open, but she's not inside. No one ever sees her again.
Ten years later he's engaged to be married; he's happy, and his past is only a tiny part of his life now. Until he comes home from work one day and finds his new fiancée sitting on their sofa turning something over in her fingers, holding it up to the light. Something that would have no worth to anyone else, something only he and she would know about, because his wife-to-be is the sister of his missing first love.
As more and more questions are raised, their relationship becomes strained. Has his first love somehow come back to him after all this time? Or is the person who took her playing games with his mind?
Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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World | Darley Anderson Agency |
UK & Commonwealth | HQ |
North America | St Martin's Press |
Albania | Living Publishing House |
Czech Republic | Albatros Media |
Denmark | Jentas |
Estonia | Pegasus |
Finland | Gummerus |
France | Hugo et Cie |
Germany | Blanvalet |
Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
Iceland | N29 |
Italy | Editrice Nord |
Japan | HarperCollins Japan |
Korea | Book21 |
Lithuania | Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers |
Macedonia | Sakam Knigi |
Poland | Albatros |
Portugal | Presenca |
Slovakia | Albatros Media |
Spain | Alianza |
The Netherlands | Ambo Anthos |

The Breakdown
If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?
Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods. And the driver who was later found murdered.
She’s forgetting everything. Where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn’t have a baby.
What she can’t forget is the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt...
Or the silent phone calls she’s been receiving since that night. And the growing fear that someone’s watching her.
Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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World | Darley Anderson Agency |
UK & Commonwealth | HQ (MIRA) |
North America | St Martin's Press |
Bulgaria | Hermes |
China | Zito |
Croatia | Mozaik Knjiga |
Czech | Albatros Media |
Denmark | Jentas |
Estonia | Pegasus |
Finland | Gummerus |
France | Hugo et Cie |
Hungary | Muvelt Nep |
Iceland | N29 |
Italy | Nord |
Korea | Book21 |
Lithuania | Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers |
Macedonia | Sakam Knigi |
Poland | Albatros |
Portugal | Presenca |
Russia | Sindbad |
Slovakia | Aktuell |
Spain | Alianza |
Sri Lanka (Sinhala) | Muses Publishing House |
Sweden | Jentas |
Taiwan | Crown Culture |
The Netherlands | Ambo Anthos |
Turkey | Dogan Kitap |

Behind Closed Doors
Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace.
He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do.
You’d like to get to know Grace better.
But it’s difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart.
Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.
Sometimes, the perfect marriage is the perfect lie.
Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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World | Darley Anderson Agency |
UK & Commonwealth | MIRA |
North America | St Martin's Press |
Film rights | Stone Village Productions |
Albania | Living |
Arabic speaking world | Aser Al-Kotob |
Azerbaijan | TEAS Press |
Bulgaria | Hermes |
Brazil (Portuguese) | Record |
China (simp. Chinese characters) | Zito |
Croatia | Mozaik Knjiga |
Czech Audio extension | Albatros Media |
Czech Republic | Albatros Media |
Denmark | Jentas |
Estonia | Pegasus |
Finland | Gummerus |
France | Hugo et Cie |
French Audio | Audible |
Germany | Blanvalet |
Greece | Harlenic Hellas |
Hungary | Művelt Nép |
Iceland | N29 |
Israel | Modan |
Italy | Editrice Nord |
Japan | HarperCollins Japan |
Korean | BY4M |
Latvia | Zvaigzne |
Lithuania | Lithuanian Writers' Union Publishers |
Macedonia | Sakam Knigi |
Norway | Gyldendal |
The Netherlands | Ambo Anthos |
Poland | Albatros |
Portugal | Presenca |
Romania | Editura TREI |
Russia | Sindbad |
Serbia | Vulkan |
Slovakia | Aktuell |
Slovenia | Ucila |
Spain | Alianza |
Sweden | Jentas |
Sri Lanka (Sinhala) | Muses Publishing House |
Taiwan | Crown Culture |
Thailand | Jamsai |
Turkey | Dogan Kitap |
Ukraine | Vivat |
Vietnam | Nha Nam |