After studying English at university, Nell Pattison became a teacher and specialised in Deaf education. She has been teaching in the Deaf community for 14 years in both England and Scotland, working with students who use BSL, and began losing her hearing in her twenties. She lives in North Lincolnshire with her husband and son. Nell is the author of novels The Silent House, which was a USA Today bestseller, and Silent Night, featuring British Sign Language interpreter Paige Northwood.

Praise for Hide:‘Tense, twisty and full of toxic secrets – a chilly fight for survival guaranteed to give you shivers’ TM Logan ‘There’s a touch of Agatha Christie to Hide…her humour is crisp and even and the plotting as keen as an axe in the skull’THE TIMES ‘Gripping’Bella magazine’Claustrophobic and intense’Fabulous magazine‘Menacing mysteries will keep you guessing until the very end in this darkly atmospheric tome’Woman’s Own magazinePraise for Nell Pattison: ‘We loved this chilling and fabulously dark read’Closer ‘A superb innovation for the crime genre . . . a brilliantly terrifying premise and a twisty, gripping tale’ Philippa East‘Sinister, layered, atmospheric … I couldn’t turn the pages quickly enough’ Debbie Howells‘A nail-biting page-turner of a thriller … The sense of a community isolated, and all the conflicts and tensions that brings, adds satisfying layers of complexity’ James Oswald‘Delicate, brutal, impossible to put down. The Silent House is a disquieting thriller’ Ross Armstrong ‘A strong and terrifically terrifying debut’The Nerd Daily ‘Fans of female amateur sleuths will like this one, and the insight into the deaf community gives it a unique slant’Shots Magazine

After studying English at university, Nell Pattison became a teacher and specialised in Deaf education. She has been teaching in the Deaf community for 14 years in both England and Scotland, working with students who use BSL, and began losing her hearing in her twenties. She lives in North Lincolnshire with her husband and son. Nell is the author of novels The Silent House, which was a USA Today bestseller, and Silent Night, featuring British Sign Language interpreter Paige Northwood.

Praise for Hide:‘Tense, twisty and full of toxic secrets – a chilly fight for survival guaranteed to give you shivers’ TM Logan ‘There’s a touch of Agatha Christie to Hide…her humour is crisp and even and the plotting as keen as an axe in the skull’THE TIMES ‘Gripping’Bella magazine’Claustrophobic and intense’Fabulous magazine‘Menacing mysteries will keep you guessing until the very end in this darkly atmospheric tome’Woman’s Own magazinePraise for Nell Pattison: ‘We loved this chilling and fabulously dark read’Closer ‘A superb innovation for the crime genre . . . a brilliantly terrifying premise and a twisty, gripping tale’ Philippa East‘Sinister, layered, atmospheric … I couldn’t turn the pages quickly enough’ Debbie Howells‘A nail-biting page-turner of a thriller … The sense of a community isolated, and all the conflicts and tensions that brings, adds satisfying layers of complexity’ James Oswald‘Delicate, brutal, impossible to put down. The Silent House is a disquieting thriller’ Ross Armstrong ‘A strong and terrifically terrifying debut’The Nerd Daily ‘Fans of female amateur sleuths will like this one, and the insight into the deaf community gives it a unique slant’Shots Magazine