Caroline Corcoran, author of 'Tiny Daggers' - Psychological Thriller writer discusses embracing the genre, learning to structure, and changing the mindset
Writer's Routine
Dan Simpson
4.9 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Corcoran is a thriller author who burst to success with her debut, 'Through the Wall' in 2019. She's been a Sunday Times bestseller ever since, translated into many languages across the world, and compared to Adele Parks and Liane Moriarty.
Caroline followed it up with 'The Baby Group', 'Five Days Missing', 'What Happened on Floor 34', and this year published, 'Tiny Daggers'. It's all about the expat Holly Jones, who is loving her new life in Miami. That is, until another Holly, from her old life in London, reconnects with her and brings up memories that have been buried for decades.
Following a career in journalism where Caroline wrote and edited for The Guardian, The Telegraph, Marie Claire, The Mirror, and many more, she's now a huge name in the world of psychological and crime thrillers.
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| 1:34.9 | Music just search for the Quick Book Reviews podcast. Hello and welcome to a brand new episode of writers' routine where this week we're chatting |
| 1:39.8 | to Caroline Corcoran about her new novel, Tiny Daggers. |
| 1:45.1 | Caroline is a Sunday Times bestseller, sold all around the world, |
| 1:49.4 | and we discuss the trickiness of being in that situation, |
| 1:53.5 | amazing though it is, but still having to think through three books at the same time. |
| 1:58.5 | Also, why she's learned to accept slower days and change the mindset |
| 2:03.6 | with a slightly different word count. There will be the good days and there will also be that, |
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