Author Karen Brady, who lives in La Cala de Mijas, has reached No 1 on an Amazon chart with her latest psychological thriller, according to Euro Weekly News. The report says the book achieved the ranking 22 days after its release; it does not specify which Amazon chart or category.
The novel is Brady’s 12th thriller and centres on Polly Stevens, a private investigator whose work involves finding missing people. The story turns inward when Stevens discovers that eight hours have gone missing from her own memory and signs at home suggest something has happened while she was away.
As she tries to reconstruct those hours, the plot connects her childhood in an orphanage with a stranger who appears at her door. The mystery grows into a wider conspiracy, the report says, with powerful figures seeking to protect its secrets.
Brady told Euro Weekly News that her starting point was research into reported experiments by intelligence agencies on people’s minds, including the MKUltra programme. She also described the novel as nostalgic for her, though the report gives no further detail about that personal connection.
Music has a role in the book as Stevens seeks an emotional anchor amid uncertainty about her memories and identity. One reader review quoted in the report praised the suspense and twists, but a single review does not establish wider reader response.
Brady was born in Birmingham and has lived and worked in several countries before settling on the Costa del Sol, according to the report. She has previously spoken publicly about her writing and said it is a passion rather than primarily a source of financial reward.
The report identifies Unknown Caller as the first book in the Orphan Trilogy and says Brady’s other novels are available through her official website. It does not give the latest book’s title, the precise Amazon category in which it ranked, or information about any forthcoming instalment.