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Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author.

Novels
Koch's debut novel If I Die Before I Wake was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in 2018. It was also longlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award, selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month, and was one of Waterstones’ top paperbacks of 2019. It was a top 20 bestseller in the UK.

Her second novel Keep Him Close came out in 2020. After its publication, Waterstones called Koch ‘One of the most exciting new crime writers of our day.’

Journalism career
Koch worked as a journalist for eight years before her first novel was published.

In 2012, she was named Young Journalist of the Year at the Regional Press Awards. Koch, who was working for the Bristol Post at the time, won the award thanks to an exclusive interview with the best friend of murdered landscape architect Jo Yeates and an expose revealing that a former henchman of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe had been working in a Bristol care home.

List of works

 * If I Die Before I Wake (Harvill Secker, 2018)
 * Keep Him Close (Harvill Secker, 2020)