TM Logan Books in Order

If you want the cleanest entry point: Lies → 29 Seconds → The Holiday
If you like family secrets under pressure: The Holiday → The Catch → Trust Me
If you prefer one impossible moral choice: 29 Seconds → Trust Me
If you want parent-versus-danger suspense: The Catch → Lies

T. M. Logan, whose first name is Tim, was born in Berkshire and grew up in Reading, the youngest of three boys. He was a bookworm early on, then studied history at Westfield College, University of London, before taking a postgraduate course at Cardiff University.

Writing was always the direction he wanted to go, and journalism looked like a practical way in. He spent five years at the Nottingham Evening Post, working as a reporter and later as education correspondent, then moved to London to become a national newspaper journalist. At the Daily Mail he worked as science reporter, covering subjects such as technology, health, genetics, space, and the environment.

Thriller writing had to wait for the margins of the day.

After moving back to the East Midlands, Logan worked for the University of Nottingham as a press officer, and later in senior communications roles. Around that job and family life, he wrote fiction in spare minutes: on trains, at home before the house woke up, and while his children were at swimming lessons. That kind of stop-start routine shaped a writer who knows how much a reader wants the next page to pull.

The big turn came with Lies, published in 2017. It starts with an ordinary father, Joe Lynch, making one quick decision after seeing his wife where he does not expect her, then follows the damage as trust, technology, and a missing man close around him. Not long after the e-book came out, Logan’s university job was made redundant, and he chose to write full time.

29 Seconds put a different kind of pressure on the page. Its central question is brutal and simple: if someone offered to make one person disappear, would you give a name? In The Holiday, he moved the danger to a sun-baked villa in the south of France, where old friends, their families, and one suspected affair turn a group trip sour.

His books often begin with a normal situation that has one wrong detail in it.

That pattern runs through The Catch, about a father who cannot shake the feeling that his daughter’s perfect fiancé is hiding something, and Trust Me, where Ellen takes a baby from a stranger on a train and is left with a warning not to trust anyone. Readers tend to come to Logan for short chapters, family pressure, secrets between people who should know each other well, and a steady sense that one choice has already gone too far.

Logan still lives in Nottinghamshire with his wife, and they have two children. He writes in a book-filled cabin in the corner of his garden, which sounds peaceful until you remember what he tends to do to ordinary families in his plots. Away from the desk, he has talked about box sets, tennis, books, and the Nottingham Panthers ice hockey team as part of his life outside writing.