Kerry Wilkinson

Kerry Wilkinson is an author who has had bestselling ebooks in the UK, Canada, Australia and South Africa.

In 2011, he became one of the United Kingdom's most-successful self-published authors, but has since worked with 'traditional' publishers. In the final quarter of 2011, Amazon UK announced he was their top-selling author for their Amazon Kindle chart - and that he had sold over 250,000 ebooks.[4]

His first novel, Locked In, went to number one on the Amazon Kindle chart[5] and Apple's iTunes crime books chart.[6] At one point in November 2011, he had the top three books in the crime chart.[7]

He signed a six-book deal with Pan Books in February 2012 to publish his Jessica Daniel series of novels.[8]

In March 2012, it was announced he was one of Amazon's top-10 bestselling UK-born authors worldwide for 2011.[9] In August 2012, it was reported he was one of Amazon's top-10 bestselling Kindle authors in 2012.[10][11]

In September 2012, Pan Macmillan announced they had acquired a "fantasy trilogy for young adults",[12] the Silver Blackthorn series.

The fourth Jessica Daniel book, Think of the Children, became Amazon UK's no.1 ebook pre-order,[13] in February 2013, with the paperback peaking at number 19 on the UK chart.[14]

In August 2013, The Bookseller reported that Pan Macmillan had bought two more books[15] from Wilkinson, including a standalone crime novel, Down Among The Dead Men; and Something Wicked, a spin-off from Playing With Fire, book five of the Jessica Daniel series.

Watched: When Road Rage Follows You Home (Dec 2013) and Crossing The Line (January 2014) became Wilkinson's seventh and eighth successive novels to appear in Amazon's top 20 crime chart.

A further deal followed in 2014 for another book in the Jessica Daniel series, another Andrew Hunter book, and a standalone crime thriller entitled, No Place Like Home. In 2015, the Bookseller reported his sales were "fast approaching the one million mark".[16]

With the Jessica Daniel series continuing through Pan Books in the UK, publisher Bookouture secured the rights to publish the series in the United States,[17] as well as global rights for "two psychological thrillers".[18]

In 2017, the first of those thrillers, Two Sisters, peaked at No.1 in the Canada Kindle chart[19] and the iBooks chart.[20] It also reached No.14 in the UK Kindle chart and No.20 in the United States.[21]

The second, The Girl Who Came Back, reached No.1 in the UK Kobo chart[22] and No.2 in the UK Kindle chart.[21] It also became his second No.1 in Canada.[21]

In 2018, his coming-of-age novel, Ten Birthdays, won Young Adult romance novel of the year at the Romantic Novelists' Association Awards.[23][24][1]

In 2020, his novel, Close To You, won Best Ebook Original Novel at the International Thriller Writers Awards.[25]

In 2021, publisher Bookouture announced Wilkinson's novel, The Blame, was his "30th book with us: the most titles Bookouture has ever released from one author".[26] It also acquired "World All Languages rights for two more addictive psychological thrillers, plus the coming-of-age novel Truly, Madly, Amy"[27]

In 2022, Bookouture said they had "signed a four-book mystery series with bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson".[28] The Whitecliff series was then released in 2023.

That same year, Bookouture announced they had signed "a pair of linked books, about a girl who goes to a teenage sleepover: but when she wakes up, her friends have vanished."[29] The Night Of The Sleepover and After The Sleepover were due for release in October and December 2023.

Kerry attended Oakfield Middle School and Frome Community College[30] in Frome, Somerset. He has a degree in journalism from the University of Central Lancashire.[31]

Kerry sponsors the annual short story competition for young writers in his home town of Frome. This is part of the Frome Festival.[32]

Miscellaneous

• Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man (2005) (co-writer)

Jessica Daniel crime novels

• Locked In (2011), ISBN 978-1447225645 (German version: Eingesperrt - Jessica Daniel ermittelt, Translator: Olaf Knechten, 2013)
• Vigilante (2011) ISBN 978-1447225669
• The Woman In Black (2011) ISBN 978-1447225676
• As If By Magic (ebook exclusive, 2012)
• Think Of The Children (February 2013) ISBN 978-1447223405
• Playing With Fire (July 2013) ISBN 978-1447223412
• Thicker Than Water (October 2013) ISBN 978-1447223429
• Behind Closed Doors (January 2014) ISBN 978-1447247852
• Crossing The Line (September 2014) ISBN 978-1447247876
• Scarred For Life (January 2015) ISBN 978-1447247890
• For Richer, For Poorer (February 2016) ISBN 978-1447280927
• Nothing But Trouble (February 2017) ISBN 978-1447285441
• Eye For An Eye (January 2018) ISBN 978-1509806652
• Silent Suspect (January 2019) ISBN 978-0957016422
• The Unlucky Ones (July 2019) ISBN 978-0957016446
• A Cry In The Night (January 2020) ISBN 978-0957016453

The Jessica Daniel novels are also available as audiobooks, read by Becky Hindley.

Whitecliff mystery novels

• The One Who Fell (April 2023) ISBN 978-1837900527
• The One Who Was Taken (April 2023) ISBN 978-1837900985
• The Ones Who Are Buried (April 2023) ISBN 978-1837901388
• The Ones Who Are Hidden (May 2023) ISBN 978-1837903559

The Whitecliff mystery novels are also available as audiobooks, read by Helen Keeley.

Andrew Hunter crime novels

• Something Wicked (June 2014)
• Something Hidden (June 2015)
• Something Buried (February 2019)

The Andrew Hunter novels are also available as audiobooks, read by Nigel Patterson.

Silver Blackthorn novels

• Reckoning (May 2014) ISBN 978-1447235309 (UK, Pan Books); (July 2014) ISBN 978-1250053534 (USA, St. Martin's Press)
• Renegade (May 2015) ISBN 978-1447235316 (UK, Pan Books); (July 2015) ISBN 978-1250061331 (USA, St. Martin's Press)
• Resurgence (May 2016) ISBN 978-1250061331 (UK, Pan Books); (July 2016) ISBN 978-1250090799 (USA, St. Martin's Press)

Other crime novels

• Watched: When Road Rage Follows You Home (2013)
• Down Among The Dead Men (September 2015) ISBN 978-1447253303
• No Place Like Home (November 2016) ISBN 978-1509804443
• Two Sisters (June 2017) ISBN 978-1786812094
• The Girl Who Came Back (September 2017) ISBN 978-1786812667
• Last Night (March 2018) ISBN 978-1786814241
• The Wife's Secret (October 2018) ISBN 978-1786817075
• A Face In The Crowd (June 2019) ISBN 978-1786817648
• Close To You (October 2019) ISBN 978-1838881627
• After The Accident (March 2020) ISBN 978-1838885168
• The Child Across The Street (July 2020) ISBN 978-1838887490
• What My Husband Did (November 2020) ISBN 978-1838888602
• The Blame (February 2021) ISBN 978-1800195028
• The Child In The Photo (June 2021) ISBN 978-1800195042
• The Perfect Daughter (September 2021) ISBN 978-1800197299
• The Party At Number 12 (March 2022) ISBN 978-1803142777
• The Boyfriend (June 2022) ISBN 978-1803142753
• The Night Of The Sleepover (October 2023)
• After The Sleepover (December 2023)

Other novels

• Ten Birthdays (April 2017) ISBN 978-1786811837
• The Death And Life Of Eleanor Parker (July 2018) ISBN 978-1786812544
• Truly, Madly, Amy (July 2022) ISBN 978-1803142739

• KerryWilkinson.com his personal website including his blog and bibliography.