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THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9

Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London with her husband and two children - a teenager from her first marriage, a little boy from her second. She also happens to be the bestselling author of the Miranda Moody detective novels.

But when Emilia embarks on her tenth novel, life takes a disturbing turn: an incident straight out of the plot of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence, she thinks.

Until it happens again - and again.

Then someone she knows dies in the same way as a victim in the book she''s currently writing . . .

Why is someone doing this?
How do they know what she is writing?
And what if Emilia and her family are next?

PRAISE FOR CLAIRE DOUGLAS:

''Clever. Gripping. Terrifically compelling. Kept me glued to the page'' SARAH PEARSE

''Eerie, spine-tingling. Douglas is a master storyteller. The perfect immersive read'' JANICE HALLETT

''Douglas is the queen of the unexpected twist, and this is her best wrongfooting yet'' GILLIAN MCALLISTER

© Claire Douglas 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

Brought to you by Penguin.

THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE COUPLE AT NO 9

Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London with her husband and two children - a teenager from her first marriage, a little boy from her second. She also happens to be the bestselling author of the Miranda Moody detective novels.

But when Emilia embarks on her tenth novel, life takes a disturbing turn: an incident straight out of the plot of one of her novels occurs in real life. Just an unsettling coincidence, she thinks.

Until it happens again - and again.

Then someone she knows dies in the same way as a victim in the book she''s currently writing . . .

Why is someone doing this?
How do they know what she is writing?
And what if Emilia and her family are next?

PRAISE FOR CLAIRE DOUGLAS:

''Clever. Gripping. Terrifically compelling. Kept me glued to the page'' SARAH PEARSE

''Eerie, spine-tingling. Douglas is a master storyteller. The perfect immersive read'' JANICE HALLETT

''Douglas is the queen of the unexpected twist, and this is her best wrongfooting yet'' GILLIAN MCALLISTER

© Claire Douglas 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023