SL Beaumont
ALLi Author Member
Location: New Zealand
Genres: History, Crime, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, Women's Fiction, Young Adult (YA)
SL Beaumont is the author of the award-winning novels The War Photographers and Shadow of Doubt, the Kat Munro thrillers and the art-crime series, The Carlswick Mysteries. She lives in beautiful New Zealand, which is only problematic when the travel-bug bites (which it does fairly often)! Her passion for travel has seen her take many long haul flights to various parts of the world. Her love of history helps determine the destination and the places she visits are a constant source of inspiration for her. Prior to becoming an author, SL Beaumont worked in banking in London and New York, and is now a partner in a chartered accountancy firm in Auckland. The War Photographers won the IRDA 2024 Historical Fiction award. Shadow of Doubt won the Indie Reader 2020 Mystery/Suspense/Thriller award, was a semi-finalist for the Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize and was longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh Award for best novel. Death Count, the first novel in the Kat Munro thriller series is a semi-finalist for the Publisher's Weekly BookLife Fiction Prize.
SL Beaumont's books
Genres: Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Can a conspiracy be uncovered before the Death Count rises? Forensic accountant Kat Munro fights corporate fraud during the day and kickboxes her demons at night while trying to ignore the nightmares that have plagued her since a car accident changed her life forever. DS Adam Jackson is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of a friend two years ago. When the partner of a successful London Investment fund dies in suspicious circumstances, Kat joins forces with Adam to investigate the firm. As they gather evidence of a crime with implications beyond the City, they find that events in their pasts are on a collision course; one which will ultimately put them both in serious danger. Fast-paced and entertaining, Death Count takes a deadly dip into the world of financial crime.
Genres: Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
WINNER Indie Reader 2020 Mystery/Suspense/Thriller award; Semi-finalist Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize, and longlisted for the Ngaio Marsh award for best novel. How well do you know those closest to you? Jessica McDonald appears to have it all: a successful London banking career, a happy marriage, and good friends. Then a terrorist bombing rocks London in the wake of the Brexit referendum. She narrowly escapes injury and tends to others wounded at the scene, too shocked to process what has happened. Lacking support from her husband in the aftermath, she turns to her new work colleague Will Johnston for comfort, setting her personal and professional lives on a collision course with unforeseen and explosive consequences. Jessica barely has time to recover before another tragedy hits: her beloved father suddenly dies of a heart attack in Edinburgh, and she rushes to her mother’s side to comfort her. Waiting for Jessica in her...
Genres: Thriller
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
Has cyber-crime escalated to murder? Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind her and begins dating journalist Connor O’Malley, whose investigations into online crime attract the wrong kind of attention. When a colleague’s teenage son goes missing, and his friend’s body is discovered, Kat finds herself working with DS Adam Jackson again. The murder enquiry leads Adam to an exclusive London school where allegations of drugs, gaming fraud and child pornography abound. As he gets deeper into the investigation, Adam is forced to face issues in his private life while suppressing his feelings for Kat. The faceless hackers become desperate, and Connor is found drugged with his research missing. Can Kat and Adam put the past behind them to solve a series of seemingly unrelated incidents before someone else becomes the victim of an elusive cyber-crime network?
Genres: Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Audio, Paperback
In the weeks leading to Christmas, Liam McArvey, lead singer of The Fury, falls for enigmatic Bella, a waitress at his local café. However, little does he know that she is hiding a dangerous secret. After a photograph of the couple, taken outside a London recording studio, surfaces on the internet, Bella panics and prepares to move on. But Liam enlists his friend, and sometimes sleuth, Stephanie Cooper, to help Bella unravel events in her past. Together, they uncover a crime within a crime, and Bella must decide where her loyalties lie. The Reluctant Witness introduces new characters into the Carlswick world along with some old favourites and can be read as a standalone.