Paula Hawkins

Paula Hawkins is a bestselling British author of psychological thrillers. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, she moved to London to work as a financial journalist before transitioning to fiction writing.

She achieved explosive international literary stardom with her phenomenal debut thriller The Girl on the Train, which sold millions of copies worldwide and was adapted into a major Hollywood film, followed by Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning.

Hawkins’s masterly suspense plotting, unreliable narrators, and complex character psychology have made her a dominant force in contemporary thriller literature.