Barbara Copperthwaite is an international best-selling author of psychological thrillers. Her books have topped Amazon and Kobo as well as appearing on the USA Today chart.

As Barbara Havelocke, she has a major new Gothic historical fiction series inspired by Great Expectations. The first in the series, Estellas’s Revenge, was published in May 2023 by Hera.

Her writing career started in journalism. For over twenty years Barbara worked for national magazines and newspapers, talking to the real victims of crime and also those who have carried those crimes out. Her fiction reflects this as she creates realistic, complex characters and explores the emotional impact of difficult situations.