L.S.Mangos

ALLi Author Member

Location: Europe

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Womens Fiction, Historical Fiction, Memoir

Skills: Writing Workshop, Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview

Louise Mangos writes award-winning suspense and mystery novels and short fiction which have won prizes, placed on shortlists and been narrated on BBC radio. Her books are set mostly in Switzerland where she lives at the foot of the Alps with her Kiwi husband and two sons. She holds a Masters in Crime Writing from the University of East Anglia in the UK.

L.S.Mangos' books

The Secrets of Morgarten

A young nation in peril. A web of deception. A triangle of forbidden love.

The year is 1315. The fledgling nation of Switzerland – the Confederation Helvetica – is under threat from the Habsburgs. In France, the Knights Templar have been disbanded and declared heretics by the king. Magda, a beautiful weaver living near the alpine village of Morgarten, befriends Walter, a messenger and tracker who is the son of the legendary Wilhelm Tell. Walter and Magda's budding romance is threatened by the arrival of Sébastien, a French fugitive. What secrets is this foreigner hiding? Can Walter solve the mystery of a murder and a stolen religious artefact before a mighty battle with the Habsburgs ensues? And who will be the victors in their turbulent triangle of love?


The Beaten Track

You think you're home safe, but what do you do when trouble follows you back?

A global backpacking adventure with a dark obsession at its core.

After her stalker takes his life and she's jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking trip perturbed, penniless and pregnant. She meets handsome Scott who offers her love, security and all she and her new baby could ever wish for.

But their dream is about to turn into a nightmare...

Strangers on a Bridge

You stop him from jumping and he thinks you're his saviour.
Then you become his obsession.
How far would you go to protect your family?

While Alice Reed is on her morning jog in the peaceful Swiss Alps, she unexpectedly saves a stranger on a notorious suicide bridge. But could her Samaritan deed turn out to be the first of many mistakes?

Adamant they have an instant connection, Manfred’s charm gradually darkens and his obsession with Alice grows stronger. In a country far from home, where the police don’t believe her, the locals don’t trust her and even her husband questions the truth about Manfred, Alice has nowhere to turn.

And she begins to think she should never have saved him that day on the bridge...

The Art of Deception

How do you prove your innocence to save your son, when you've already been convicted of murdering his father?

Art school dropout Lucie is on a backpacking trip across Europe when she arrives in the idyllic Swiss Alps. A holiday romance with ski instructor Mathieu takes a crucial turn when Lucie discovers she is pregnant. Spiralling into a relationship of coercion and dark domestic abuse, Lucie is powerless to escape her marriage without losing her son.

Seven years on, Lucie is serving a sentence in a Swiss prison for a murder she insists she did not commit. Surrounded by an eclectic group of inmates, Lucie must summon all her strength and intuition to uncover long-kept secrets and fight for her freedom to be reunited with her son before he is abducted by her husband’s family.

The clock is ticking . . . but who can she trust?

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