Helen Fields

Helen Fields
Born
Helen Sarah Fields

1969 (age 56–57)
OccupationWriter
Children3
Writing career
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.helenfields.com

Helen Sarah Fields (born 1969) is an English novelist and short story writer, who writes primarily in the crime fiction and thriller genres.[1][2]

Personal life

Fields is originally from Romsey, but moved to North Waltham in the early 2000s.[3]

She is a former criminal and family law barrister[4] who practiced criminal and family law cases for 13 years.[5] She has three children.[5] In 2017, she and her family moved to Southern California in the United States, and by 2022 had relocated back to England.[6][7]

Writing career

Fields is a million-copy best-selling crime writer[8] who has also written under the pen name HS Chandler. She is a member of the Society of Authors' board of directors.[9] Her books have been translated into Belgian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Lithuanian and Taiwanese.[1]

Fields began writing and self-publishing in the early 2000s, but considered it largely a hobby. She later found an agent and released her debut novel, Perfect Remains, in 2017 through HarperCollins.[3]

She has had articles published in magazines such as The Express Newspaper,[10] The Telegraph,[6] Country Life,[11] Harper's Bazaar,[12] and My Weekly.

Books

  • One for Sorrow (2022)[5][13] ISBN 978-0008379339
  • The Last Girl to Die (2022)[14][15] ISBN 978-0008379360
  • These Lost & Broken Things
  • Perfect Kill[16][17] ISBN 978-0008275242
  • Degrees of Guilt (writing as HS Chandler)[18] ISBN 978-1409178217
  • Perfect Remains (2017, HarperCollins)[3] ISBN 978-0008181550
  • Perfect Prey ISBN 978-0008181581
  • Perfect Death ISBN 978-0008181611
  • Perfect Silence (2018) ISBN 978-0008275174
  • Perfect Crime ISBN 978-0008275204
  • The Shadow Man[19] ISBN 978-0008379308
  • The Institution [20][8] ISBN 978-0008533519
  • Profile K [21][22]
  • The Profiler ISBN 978-0008533564
  • These Lost & Broken Things ISBN 978-0957124653

Short stories

  • "Let the Shadows Fall" (an anthology 'Scotland's Stories')[23]
  • "Midsummer Mysteries" (anthology short story) ISBN 978-1804177266
  • "Death Comes at Christmas" (anthology short story) ISBN 978-1803369426

References

  1. 1 2 Bunting, Ian (2023-04-29). "Best-selling crime author and former lawyer latest guest at reading group event". Daily Record. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  2. ↑ "Crime author Helen Fields on how Edinburgh inspires her books". The Herald. 2021-04-18. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  3. 1 2 3 "North Waltham author writes debut crime thriller". Basingstoke Gazette. 2017-01-22. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  4. ↑ "The Health Lottery Podcast with former Criminal Barrister Helen Fields". Wellbeing Magazine. 2024-10-07. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  5. 1 2 3 McDonald, Sally (2022-03-11). "Meet the author: Helen Fields on new book One For Sorrow". The Sunday Post. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  6. 1 2 Fields, Helen (2018-08-17). "We moved to America – and then our daughter was caught in a high school shooting situation". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  7. ↑ "Ask the local author: Helen Fields - Sussex | Muddy Stilettos". Ask the local author: Helen Fields - Sussex | Muddy Stilettos. Retrieved 2026-04-21.
  8. 1 2 "WATCH: best-selling crime author Helen Fields talks to Phil Hewitt". SussexWorld. 2023-04-10. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  9. ↑ "Helen Fields/H S Chandler – The Society of Authors". Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  10. ↑ Fields, Helen (2023-02-07). "I was raped by police but scared to report it - power still abused". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  11. ↑ Fields, Helen (2022-09-24). "The Witches of Mull, and other spine-chilling stories from an island full of myth and magic". CountryLifeMagazine. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  12. ↑ "Happy Valley, Tommy Lee Royce and the problem with attractive serial killers". Harpers Bazaar. 6 February 2023. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  13. ↑ McElhone, Nora (2022-03-26). "BOOKS: Helen Fields on becoming her own hero". The Courier. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  14. ↑ Campbell, Rita (2022-12-30). "Mull has its share of witches, legends and myths - but does this thriller give the island a bad name?". Press and Journal. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  15. ↑ Gavan, Rachael (2022-10-26). "Murder on Mull – An Interview With Scottish Crime Writer Helen Fields". Wilderness Scotland. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  16. ↑ "10 great reads from Hampshire-based authors". Great British Life. 2020-04-26. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  17. ↑ Alix (2020-05-28). "2020 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Longlist". Ian Fleming. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  18. ↑ "Claire Allan, author of The Nurse writes an open letter to Helen Fields". femalefirst.co.uk. 9 June 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-06-09. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  19. ↑ "The Most Unforgettable Female Leads in Crime Fiction". CrimeReads. 2022-05-24. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  20. ↑ "Helen Fields turns up the tension in this grisly, twisty thriller". The Independent. 2023-03-12. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  21. ↑ Hay, Allison (2024-04-25). "Profile K | Helen Fields". My Weekly. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  22. ↑ "Q&A: author Helen Fields". Bookbrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
  23. ↑ "Let the Shadows Fall by Helen Fields". Scottish Book Trust. Retrieved 2025-03-16.
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