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‘Imaginative, unusual, clever and fun’ Sunday Times
‘A twisty, exciting read’ Sabine Durrant
‘A dark, sexy mystery’ Metro
A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.
When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting skills to help lure their suspect into a confession. But right from the start, she has doubts about the part she’s being asked to play. Is Patrick Fogler really a killer . . . Or the only decent husband she’s ever met? And is there more to this set-up than she’s being told?
And that’s when Claire realises she’s playing the deadliest role of her life . . .
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE MONTH
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See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest new name in psychological thrillers:
‘DAZZLING’ – Lee Child
‘ADDICTIVE’ – Daily Express
‘DEVASTATING’ – Daily Mail
‘INGENIOUS’ – The New York Times
‘COMPULSIVE’ – Glamour Magazine
‘ELEGANT’ – Peter James
‘SEXY’ – Mail on Sunday
‘ENTHRALLING’ – Woman and Home
‘ORIGINAL’ – The Times
‘RIVETING’ – Lisa Gardner
‘CREEPY’ – Heat
‘SATISFYING’ – Reader’s Digest
‘SUPERIOR’ – The Bookseller
‘MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS’ – Sunday Times
‘A twisty, exciting read’ Sabine Durrant
‘A dark, sexy mystery’ Metro
Claire Wright isn’t who she seems.
A British drama student, in New York without a green card, Claire takes the only job she can get: working for a firm of divorce lawyers, posing as an easy pick-up in hotel bars to entrap straying husbands.
When one of her targets becomes the subject of a murder investigation, the police ask Claire to use her acting skills to help lure their suspect into a confession. But right from the start, she has doubts about the part she’s being asked to play. Is Patrick Fogler really a killer . . . Or the only decent husband she’s ever met? And is there more to this set-up than she’s being told?
And that’s when Claire realises she’s playing the deadliest role of her life . . .
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND BOOK OF THE MONTH
**********
See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest new name in psychological thrillers:
‘DAZZLING’ – Lee Child
‘ADDICTIVE’ – Daily Express
‘DEVASTATING’ – Daily Mail
‘INGENIOUS’ – The New York Times
‘COMPULSIVE’ – Glamour Magazine
‘ELEGANT’ – Peter James
‘SEXY’ – Mail on Sunday
‘ENTHRALLING’ – Woman and Home
‘ORIGINAL’ – The Times
‘RIVETING’ – Lisa Gardner
‘CREEPY’ – Heat
‘SATISFYING’ – Reader’s Digest
‘SUPERIOR’ – The Bookseller
‘MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS’ – Sunday Times
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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