Carmel Harrington

Carmel Harrington is an award-winning, No. 1 bestselling thriller writer, with books that include The Nowhere Girls, The Stolen Child and the 2026 Quick Reads novella The Last Bench. The Stopping Place (January 27’) is her sixteenth novel.

Her work has been included in the Sunday Times Best Thrillers of the Year; she is published internationally and is an Irish Times, USA Today, and Kindle bestseller. Carmel is a Good Housekeeping Good Books Winner; her debut was awarded Romantic eBook of the Year and Kindle Book of the Year, and her work has been shortlisted for an Irish Book Award multiple times.

A regular on Irish television and radio, Carmel has been a guest speaker at literary events in Ireland, the UK, and the USA, and served as Chair of the Wexford Literary Festival for three years.

She lives in rural Wexford with her husband, Roger, children, Amelia and Nate, and their rescue dog, George Bailey.