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B A Paris’ breakout debut novel Behind Closed Doors has now sold more than 3.5 million copies globally, according to its publisher HQ.
First published in the UK in 2016 by the HarperCollins imprint, Behind Closed Doors has sold more than a million copies across all editions in the UK alone, according to HQ's figures. Through Nielsen BookScan's TCM, it has shifted 212,417 UK copies in paperback since 2016, and it was a huge e-book seller.
Behind Closed Doors has also published in 40 languages and was a bestseller in Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Korea, Norway, the Netherlands and Poland, where it was nominated for an Empik Award.
Paris said: “When I wrote Behind Closed Doors, I never imagined that it would be published, let alone that it would be read by so many. I’m eternally grateful to all those who have read and supported my debut, and to the Darley Anderson Agency and my publisher HQ for having faith in me and my story.”
Her agent, Camilla Bolton at the Darley Anderson Agency, said: “I can remember exactly where I was sitting when I first read Behind Closed Doors. From that first moment I knew B A Paris would be a household name. The agency is hugely proud to be able to work with B A Paris, she is a commercial genius and has earned the title 'The Queen of Suspense’.”
Her fifth novel, The Therapist, sees Paris return to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense. It was published this month in hardback, e-book and audiobook is a top-20 Sunday Times hardback fiction bestseller.
HQ fiction publisher and Paris’ editor Kate Mills said: “The phenomenal Behind Closed Doors was one of the first books HQ published and it’s a testament to Bernadette’s brilliance that her debut became a runaway bestseller, not just in the UK but around the globe. It really did ignite the psychological suspense genre and we’ve been incredibly proud to see millions of readers fall under its spell since.”