Description
Review “This tense, twisty thriller keeps the reader on tenterhooks right through to its breathless ending.” ― Good Housekeeping “You’ll be guessing until the very end.” ― Woman & Home “An addictive pulse-pounder.” ― Heat magazine “Gripping, incredibly tense and twisty with real emotional heart.” ―Laura Marshall, author of Friend Request “A totally compelling read. McGowan is brilliant at writing from the point of view of a woman trapped by her own toxic reputation.” ―William Shaw, author of the DS Alexandra Cupidi series About the Author Claire McGowan was born in 1981 in a small Irish village where the most exciting thing that ever happened was some cows getting loose on the road. She is the author of The Fall , What You Did , The Other Wife , The Push and the acclaimed Paula Maguire crime series. She also writes women’s fiction under the name Eva Woods.
Features & Highlights
- In this tense thriller from the bestselling author of
- What You Did
- and
- The Other Wife
- , a woman finds a dead body. Will she make the same mistake as last time?
- Rachel lives a quiet life in the peaceful countryside, content with her perfect man and her lovely dog. But when she stumbles upon a body in the woods one day, all that shatters. She knows what she has to do: run. Don’t get accused of murder. But when this victim is identified as her boyfriend’s estranged wife, Rachel realises she’s already the prime suspect.
- With mounting evidence against her, Rachel’s only hope is to keep her past well hidden. Because before she was Rachel, she was Casey, a young nanny trying to make it as an actress in Los Angeles―and when the family she worked for were brutally murdered, she narrowly escaped the death penalty. Now, she’ll do anything to save the life she’s spent years piecing back together.
- But the police are closing in, and Rachel can’t help wondering: Was her discovery in the woods really just an awful coincidence, or is someone framing her for murder? Someone who knows who she is, and wants revenge…
