The five million copy bestseller
Mark Edwards writes psychological thrillers about ordinary people who encounter terrifying events. His novels include The Magpies and Here To Stay. The Wasp Trap, his hardcover debut, is coming summer 2025.
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Bargain alert! Amazon are selling The Wasp Trap hardback for almost half price! £8.94. I have no idea how long this price will last so you might want to grab one now if you haven’t already. Alternatively you could order a signed copy from Booka, Heath Books or Imagined Things (easily found via Google).
Whether you’re going to the beach or taking a staycation in your back garden, this is one summer where you shouldn’t try to avoid wasps! The Wasp Trap is out now and available wherever you get your books, ebooks and audiobooks. If you’ve already read it, leave me a comment to let me know what you thought.
*not an actual guarantee… 🐝 🐝 🐝
BUT The Wasp Trap is the perfect book to take to the beach. Available now from Amazon, Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Waterstones or your local indie bookshop. Also available in trade paperback from WHSmith in airports. And, of course, on Kindle and audiobook.
“What if psychopaths could be identified by filling out a questionnaire? This is the ingenious premise of Edwards’s (The Psychopath Next Door) nail-biting new suspense novel. Twenty-five years ago, Will, Georgina, Theo, Lily, Sophie, and Rohan were chosen by their professor, Sebastian Marlowe, to help him build a dating website. After working together for several months at Marlowe’s country estate, the group was ready to launch the site when Marlowe abruptly pulled the plug on it. Now the six of them are getting together again for the first time in decades, for a dinner party in honor of the late Professor Marlowe. Almost immediately upon arriving at Georgina and Theo’s home in London, the group discover that someone has a very different idea of what is going to happen at that night’s dinner. Edwards deftly builds the novel’s quiet unease, which blooms into a full-blown sense of dread by the end of the story, neatly dispensing a number of jaw-dropping plot twists along the way.” Library Journal, starred review
A huge thank you from me to everyone who bought The Wasp Trap in its first week on sale. So many great reviews. Loads of, ahem, buzz. 🐝 If you haven’t got it yet it’s available on Amazon, in Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda, Waterstones and of course you can ask your local indie bookseller. Buy it and I will love you forever.
Some more highlights from The Wasp Trap publication week. A very special bottle of bubbly from my amazing agents. In the local paper, the Express and Star. Fab reviews in Crime Monthly and Lancashire Life. And one copy left in Sainsbury’s this morning.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has bought the book this week and to everyone who has been posting photos and reviews. Being a writer is all I’ve ever wanted to do so if you keep buying them I can keep writing them!
Fantastic to meet so many lovely readers at @waterstoneswolverhampton today! Every copy of The Wasp Trap sold out within 15 minutes and then we sold out of paperbacks too!
If you missed out, there will be more signed copies in store soon. And I’m planning to be back later this year when The Christmas Magpie is published.
What a week it’s been!
The most amazing event at @waterstonesbirmingham last night with Steve Cavanagh @sscav who was brilliantly entertaining, funny and generous and drew an enormous crowd who bought tons of books. We were signing for well over an hour and it was amazing to meet so many readers, both old and new. A really special evening.
PS Steve’s new book is brilliant and you should all buy it!
Big announcement! I am giving away the only remaining hardback of Sweetmeat - which I found while I was cleaning my office - along with an advanced copy of The Christmas Magpie. Both will be signed and dedicated. Sweetmeat sold out instantly and there will never be another chance to get one. (If you’ve already got Sweetmeat I will substitute it for something equally nice.)
To enter, all you have to do is take a photo of The Wasp Trap in a bookshop or library and post it on Instagram, tagging me (@markedwardsauthior) and saying something about the book and which shop/library it is.
The Wasp Trap is in Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, lots of Waterstones, WHSmith at airports and in some independent bookshops and libraries. If your local bookshop or library doesn’t have it, please ask them to order it in then take a photo of it. (Obviously this will require you buying/borrowing it!)
You can include yourself in the pic - as in my Sainsburys selfie here - just take it on the shelf or get creative!
I’m running this for the whole of August so the closing date is 31 August. The winner will be chosen at random.
This competition is for the UK and Ireland but I will run another in September for America and Canada with an equally cool couple of items.
I will contact the winner using my blue-ticked Insta account via direct message. Please be wary of scammers. I will never ask for money and will only ask you to send me your details to my official email address mark@markedwardsauthor.com
Can’t wait to see your pics!
Just in case you missed the news - The Wasp Trap is out now in the UK!
Summer 1999. Will joins five other idealistic graduates working for an eccentric psychology professor. They’re going to launch a website to change online dating forever.
No-one expects it to end in tragedy.
Twenty-five years later, Will gets an invitation: a dinner party. A chance to see the old gang again.
But as soon as he arrives, something doesn’t seem right.
There’s an unexpected guest. The hosts are clearly keeping a secret. And on the way in, Will is sure he heard crying.
Everyone has something to hide about what really happened that summer.
But only one of them is willing to kill to find the truth…
The day is finally here! 🐝 🐝 🐝
30 years ago, when I still had lots of hair and Oasis were up-and-coming, I wrote my first novel, dreaming that one day I would walk into a shop and see a beautiful hardback with my name on it. If I’d known it would take this long for that to actually happen…well, I would still have done it because it has definitely been worth the wait! THE WASP TRAP, my first traditionally published hardback, is out now and I’m very proud of it. I can’t wait for you all to read it.
Coincidentally, it is published on my mum’s birthday. The person who got me into reading in the first place, taking me to the mobile library and setting an amazing example by sharing her love of books. She also volunteered at my primary school, helping kids learn to read, and as an added bonus left novels by James Herbert and Stephen King lying around for me to pick up…unaware of what that was going to spark in me! Happy birthday, Mum!
I’m going to spend today, touring the local bookshops and supermarkets looking for The Wasp Trap and annoying the staff of Asda and Sainsburys by loitering in their book aisles. Then tonight I hope to see lots of you at my live party.
PS It is of course also an ebook and audiobook and available everywhere: Kindle, Apple Books, Audible, Spotify, etc, etc. Just search ‘mark edwards wasp trap’ wherever you get your books.
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The Wasp Trap is out TOMORROW (July 31) in the UK and I will be going live on my Facebook page at 8pm for my launch party - where I’ll be giving away everything in this picture. That includes a super early copy of The Christmas Magpie, American and Canadian proofs of The Wasp Trap, plus more. You have to be watching live to get your name in the cookie jar and stand a chance of winning.
Link in bio or search for mark edwards author on Facebook
Such a fun night at Nottingham Central Library for the Crime vs Romance event. Big crowd, loads of laughs (Millie Johnson should be a stand-up comedian) and the crime team slayed it with our improvised romcom The Nottingham Chainsaw Romance, starring a sexy lumberjack and a girl with the ick. To top it off, one of my lovely readers brought me a present, a very fancy fountain pen/quill. Picture two encapsulates how much fun it was.
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Bargain alert! Amazon are selling The Wasp Trap hardback for almost half price! £8.94. I have no idea how long this price will last so you might want to grab one now if you haven’t already. Alternatively you could order a signed copy from Booka, Heath Books or Imagined Things (easily found via Google). ... See MoreSee Less
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Whether you’re going to the beach or taking a staycation in your back garden, this is one summer where you shouldn’t try to avoid wasps! The Wasp Trap is out now and available wherever you get your books, ebooks and audiobooks. If you’ve already read it, leave me a comment to let me know what you thought. ... See MoreSee Less
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Chuffed to find myself on Wikipedia’s list of notable people from my home town of Hastings! I’ve always wanted to be notable. Other Hastonians include Suggs, Jo Brand and John Logie Baird, who invented television there. I think they should give me a commemorative stick of rock 🤣 ... See MoreSee Less
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If you didn’t manage to get a signed copy of The Wasp Trap, you’ll be able to meet me and get one in Bridgnorth, Shropshire on 25 September when I’ll be interviewed by the brilliant Jo Callaghan. Tickets available now. Limited spaces so book yours now before they all go www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-mark-edwards-the-wasp-trap-tickets-1415714011719 ... See MoreSee Less
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Some more highlights from The Wasp Trap publication week. A very special bottle of bubbly from my amazing agents. In the local paper, the Express and Star. Fab reviews in Crime Monthly and Lancashire Life. And one copy left in Sainsbury’s this morning.
I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has bought the book this week and to everyone who has been posting photos and reviews. Being a writer is all I’ve ever wanted to do so if you keep buying them I can keep writing them! ... See MoreSee Less
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Fantastic to meet so many lovely readers at Waterstones Wolverhampton today! Every copy of The Wasp Trap sold out within 15 minutes and then we sold out of paperbacks too!
If you missed out, there will be more signed copies in store soon. And I’m planning to be back later this year when The Christmas Magpie is published.
What a week it’s been! ... See MoreSee Less
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The most amazing event at @waterstonesbirmingham last night with Steve Cavanagh @sscav who was brilliantly entertaining, funny and generous and drew an enormous crowd who bought tons of books. We were signing for well over an hour and it was amazing to meet so many readers, both old and new. A really special evening. ... See MoreSee Less
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Big announcement! I am giving away the only remaining hardback of Sweetmeat - which I found while I was cleaning my office - along with an advanced copy of The Christmas Magpie. Both will be signed and dedicated. Sweetmeat sold out instantly and there will never be another chance to get one. (If you’ve already got Sweetmeat I will substitute it for something equally nice.)
To enter, all you have to do is take a photo of The Wasp Trap in a bookshop or library and post it on Instagram, tagging me (@markedwardsauthior) and saying something about the book and which shop/library it is. If you’re not on Instagram, you can post it on Facebook and tag me on here.
The Wasp Trap is in Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, lots of Waterstones, WHSmith at airports and in some independent bookshops and libraries. If your local bookshop or library doesn’t have it, please ask them to order it in then take a photo of it. (Obviously this will require you buying/borrowing it!)
You can include yourself in the pic - as in my Sainsburys selfie here - just take it on the shelf or get creative!
I’m running this for the whole of August so the closing date is 31 August. The winner will be chosen at random. If you post on both Instagram and Facebook you’ll get two entries.
This competition is for the UK and Ireland but I will run another in September for America and Canada with an equally cool couple of items.
I will contact the winner using my blue-ticked FB or Insta account via direct message. Please be wary of scammers. I will never ask for money and will only ask you to send me your details to my official email address mark@markedwardsauthor.com
Can’t wait to see your pics! ... See MoreSee Less
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