I’m J. Cronshaw, author of dark domestic thrillers about obsession, betrayal, and the strangers we trust too easily.
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Latest release: Domestic Noir Six-Pack
Six stories. Six secrets. One sleepless night.
Six razor-sharp British domestic thrillers made for readers who love their fiction tense, twisty, and impossible to put down.
Each story follows ordinary families tipped into danger, where the neighbourly smile hides a warning and the safest place becomes the most frightening.
Meet the mothers, wives, and daughters who stand their ground even as the truth turns brutal.
This collection brings together six full-length novels: Her Daugher’s Mother, The Teacher, I Know What I Saw, What You Did, The Nanny’s Secret, and Locker 19.
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She opened her home. Now she’s fighting for her life inside it.
When widowed mother Anna takes in a lodger, it feels like the perfect solution.
But Lauren knows things she shouldn’t, and soon Anna is being pushed out of her own life. The neighbours trust her. The police dismiss her. Only Anna sees the truth—this stranger wants to take her place.
And when her late husband’s secrets surface, Anna must protect her daughter from the girl who calls herself family.
UK domestic noir psychological thrillers
My domestic noir psycholohical thrillers dig beneath the surface of ordinary lives to uncover obsession, betrayal, and the dangerous truths people will do anything to protect.
Set against familiar domestic backdrops—quiet streets, family kitchens, school gates—each story twists into a nightmare where trust shatters, paranoia takes root, and no relationship is safe.
Tense, emotional, and impossible to put down, these novels deliver shocking revelations and heart-stopping suspense in page-turning tales of ordinary people pushed to extraordinary limits.
Perfect for readers who love dark secrets, unreliable narrators, and endings that linger long after the final page.
What readers are saying about J. Cronshaw
★★★★★ – “Domestic Noir At Its Best.”
★★★★★ – “I don’t think this psychological thriller will leave me for quite some time.”
★★★★★ –”Wow, this guy knows how to write psychological domestic noir.”
★★★★★ – “Unputdownable. Loved it! Great storyline and strong characters.”
★★★★★ – “This novel is so intense. I never began to think I had it all figured out and the ending wraps up everything so completely. A terrific read with a storyline and characters that quickly grab you and keep you reading way too late.”
★★★★★ – “Terrific book that has so many unexpected twists and ending that totally blew me away. Nothing is as it seems until the very end when it cleverly comes together.”
★★★★★ – “Wow!! What did I just read!! J Cronshaw has done it again.”
★★★★★ – “Lots of twists and turns I didn’t expect. So exciting I couldn’t put it down!”
★★★★★ – “Very well written with a lot of twists and turns!”
★★★★★ – “A difficult book to put down.”
★★★★★ – “Mr Cronshaw is an excellent story teller, taking you down twisting paths until you doubt what you previously thought to be true.”
★★★★★ – “I thought I had figured out the ending but I was so, so wrong.”
★★★★★ – “Boy can he write. He drags you right into the scenes like you are actually there. Shows you what makes people “tick”. The story drags you in, wraps itself around you, then, finally, spits you out at then end going “wow!”
★★★★★ – “Wow, this is a very well written, scary story. Loved it!”
★★★★★ – “My heart was breaking for Sally and Amelia, I couldn’t put the book down I needed to know how all their lives turned out.”
★★★★★ – “Wow!! What a read!! This is the first book I have read by this author but it definitely won’t be the last. Her Daughter’s Mother was a roller coaster of a ride that I will recommend to everyone.”
Latest news and stories from J. Cronshaw
- Locker 19 Launch – A Gripping Domestic Thriller Set on the Shores of Morecambe Bay
Discover Locker 19, a tense, twist-driven domestic thriller set in Hest Bank and Morecambe Bay. When Nicola’s husband vanishes, the truth buried in Locker 19 threatens to destroy everything she loves. Download this chilling new novella today. - Why ordinary British homes make the perfect setting for domestic noir
A look at why familiar British houses, quiet streets and everyday domestic life create the ideal backdrop for unsettling psychological suspense. Perfect for readers who love dark, twisty British thrillers. - The Empty Chair – A Chilling Christmas Domestic Noir Short Story Set in Morecambe
A missing sister. A Christmas dinner. A terrible truth waiting at the table. - Locker 19 – Chapter One: A Chilling Domestic Thriller Set in Morecambe BayRead the tense opening chapter of Locker 19, a gripping domestic thriller set on the Lancashire coast. A missing £60,000, a secret key marked “Locker 19,” and a husband with too many lies set the stage for a Christmas Eve full of dread. Perfect for readers who enjoy psychological suspense rooted in family secrets.
- The Psychology of Gaslighting in Crime Fiction: How Domestic Noir Uses Doubt, Manipulation and Unreliable NarratorsA deep look at how gaslighting creates tension in domestic noir, featuring examples from my novels Her Daughter’s Mother, The Teacher, and The Nanny’s Secret. Discover why manipulation, self-doubt and unreliable narrators form the perfect combination for modern psychological thrillers.