In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation
One aspiring actress from the UK pays for her acting class in New York the only way she can: as a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers, hired to entrap straying husbands. When the police begin investigating one of her targets for murdering his wife – and potentially others – they ask her to help lure the suspect into a confession.
But with the actress pretending to be someone she’s not, differentiating the decoy from the prey becomes impossible – and deadly.
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See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest new name in psychological thrillers:
‘An outstanding debut that is more than a match for Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train‘ Sunday Times
Dazzling – a pitch-perfect thriller (Lee Child)
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart (Mail on Sunday)
(P)2018 Quercus Editions Limited
One aspiring actress from the UK pays for her acting class in New York the only way she can: as a decoy for a firm of divorce lawyers, hired to entrap straying husbands. When the police begin investigating one of her targets for murdering his wife – and potentially others – they ask her to help lure the suspect into a confession.
But with the actress pretending to be someone she’s not, differentiating the decoy from the prey becomes impossible – and deadly.
**********
See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest new name in psychological thrillers:
‘An outstanding debut that is more than a match for Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train‘ Sunday Times
Dazzling – a pitch-perfect thriller (Lee Child)
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart (Mail on Sunday)
(P)2018 Quercus Editions Limited
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Reviews
I so enjoyed it - what a twisty exciting read
A compelling read . . . Redefines the concept of an unreliable narrator . . . [A] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme
I was instantly gripped and held captivated by the pace and elegant writing. I devoured it in two straight sittings
Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart
A deeply addictive literary thriller that deserves to be one of this year's biggest successes
A compulsive, sexy thriller that's set to soar
A guaranteed best-seller
Outstanding... more than a match for Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train
Ingenious
Snares you like a tractor beam... a dark, sexy mystery
Plotting of the kind that keeps satisfyingly wrong-footing the reader... intensely cinematic
A stylish, twisty psychological thriller