About
Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated and Library of Virginia's People Choice Award finalist author of the critically acclaimed espionage thriller Her Name Is Knight of the Nena Knight series and domestic thriller Not What She Seems.
In 2020, she received the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from the national crime writers organization, Sisters in Crime. Yasmin’s books were an Amazon Best Book of the Month for Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and an Editor’s Pick. Her work has received numerous recognitions, was on a billboard in Times Square, Best Of lists, and a Library Journal Starred Review. The Nena Knight series was also optioned for a television series.
Her Name Is Knight has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, OprahDaily.com, POPSUGAR, Nerd Daily, the Washington Independent Review of Books, The Guardian, and other platforms. Her Name is Knight is currently optioned for a feature.
Yasmin is a proud member of several prestigious organizations, such as Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, and the Women’s National Book Association.
Featured Work
Her Name Is Knight: Nena Knight, Book 1
A smash debut novel, Her Name Is Knight features an elite assassin heroine on a mission to topple a human trafficking ring and avenge her family.Stolen from her Ghanaian village as a child, Nena Knight has plenty of motives to kill. Now an elite assassin for a powerful business syndicate called the Tribe, she gets plenty of chances.
But while on assignment in Miami, Nena ends up saving a life, not taking one. She emerges from the experience a changed woman, finally hopeful for a life beyond rage and revenge. Tasked with killing a man she’s come to respect, Nena struggles to reconcile her loyalty to the Tribe with her new purpose.
Meanwhile, she learns the same man who razed her village, murdered her family, and sold her into captivity is alive and well all these years later. Nena can’t resist the temptation of vengeance - and she doesn’t want to. Before she can reclaim her life, she must leverage everything she was and everything she is to take him down and end the cycle of bloodshed for good.
Other Works
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Not What She Seems
2024
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It Ends with Knight
2023
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They Come at Knight
2022
Awards and Recognition
- Finalist- Anthony Awards- Best Debut
- 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color- Sisters in Crime
- Finalist- Library of Virginia People's Choice Awards 2023
