Holly Watt

Holly Watt has written six novels, including The Good Listener, which is out now.
Holly's first novel - To The Lions - won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year. Her second book, The Dead Line, was named one of the Thrillers of the Year by The Times and the FT. The Casey Benedict series continues with The Hunt and The Kill and The End of The Game.
Before writing novels, Holly was a leading investigative journalist. She started her career at the Sunday Times, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, she was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. She then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team.
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Books by Holly Watt
Series by Holly Watt
A Casey Benedict Investigation (4 books)
Fictions and Others
The End of the Game (A Casey Benedict Investigation #4 / 4)
2026 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller
The Good Listener
2026 | thriller, crime fiction
The Last Truths We Told
2025 | thriller, mystery
The Hunt and the Kill (A Casey Benedict Investigation #3 / 4)
2021 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, mystery
Dead Line (A Casey Benedict Investigation #2 / 4)
2020 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, mystery
To the Lions (A Casey Benedict Investigation #1 / 4)
2019 | thriller, crime fiction, spy thriller, mystery
