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She saw her neighbour carry a rug to his van at ten past two. Every word of it was a lie.

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Hannah Price doesn't sleep. So when her friend Leah vanishes from the house across the Close on Bonfire Night, Hannah is the perfect witness. From her landing window she saw Leah's husband Adam carry a rolled green rug out to his van in the middle of the night, and drive away. She tells the police the time on the landing clock. She tells them the fringe was swinging under the street light.

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Adam swears he never left the house. Then the rug turns up in a skip on the moor, with Leah's blood on it.

There's just one problem. Hannah wasn't at the window.

Everything she told the police was true, except the part that mattered. And the longer Adam sits in a prison cell waiting for a trial, the more Hannah starts to wonder who she was really protecting.

Everything She Told the Police is a twisty domestic thriller told by three people: the witness, the husband and the one person nobody is looking for.

• Short chapters, three narrators, and a twist you can go back and find the clues for. • A domestic thriller with no sexual content and no violence on the page. The danger is in what people believe. • Set in present-day Harrogate over one November.

Perfect for readers of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell and Claire Douglas.

£4.99 · 139pp View book Free sample

The police asked if my husband was home with me that night. I said yes. I wasn't home.

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On a Thursday morning in March, two detectives come to Georgie Selby's door in Hove. Frankie Carver, her husband's business partner, has been found dead at the foot of the stairs in her Kemptown flat. Jude Selby says he was at home with his wife all Tuesday night. Can Georgie confirm that?

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She says yes.

She knows about the affair. She knows about the message Frankie sent Jude that night: Tell her tonight or I will. She knows the police are looking hard at her husband. And she knows the one thing nobody else does: on Tuesday night, between twenty to eleven and twenty past midnight, she wasn't at home.

DS Nasreen Qureshi of the Major Crime Team doesn't believe either of them. She has a woman in a yellow raincoat on a seafront camera, a second wine glass on the victim's table, and a husband who keeps saying we were both at home before anyone has asked about his wife.

The longer Georgie keeps her husband's alibi, the more it looks like her own. And she has started to wonder why, in five weeks, Jude has never once asked her where she was.

• A twisty domestic thriller told by a wife, a detective and, at the very end, a husband. • Set in present-day Brighton and Hove. • A standalone novel.

£4.99 · 145pp View book Free sample

The babysitter left her phone on the kitchen island. The message that lit it up was about my son.

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Sophie Marchant's babysitter is seventeen, takes her shoes off at the door, and is the only person her three-year-old son Arlo will let do the Gruffalo voices. Then, one Friday night in January, Maisie leaves her phone behind, and a message from her mother lights up the screen.

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Upstairs, Arlo's hairbrush is clean. It's never clean on a Friday.

The babysitter's mother cuts hair on Church Street. Sophie's husband has been sitting in her chair since October. A child's toothbrush vanishes from a locked house. And when the police warn the woman off, she asks them to pass on one thing: a date. The nineteenth of January, 2023.

It is a date Sophie has spent four years trying not to remember.

The Babysitter's Phone is a twisty domestic thriller told by three women: the mother with a secret, the teenager who stole for hers, and the one person who has been grieving all along.

• Short chapters, three narrators, and more than one twist you can go back and find the clues for. • No sexual content and no violence on the page. The danger is in what a family will do to keep a child. • Set in present-day Reading over one January and February.

Perfect for readers of Freida McFadden, Lisa Jewell and Claire Douglas.

£4.99 · 147pp View book Free sample

Five old friends. One weekend at the mill. By Sunday the host was in the pond, and the police had my name.

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Twenty years after they left sixth form, Tavy Rathbone invites the old friends back to Millbrook, the Cotswold mill where her little brother drowned on the night of their leavers' party. Naomi Aske nearly doesn't go. She's a GP with a ten-year-old son and no spare weekends, and she has never known why Tavy stopped speaking to her the summer Laurie died.

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But Tavy's face has changed. She isn't drinking. She wants everyone there. And she wants to know, once and for all, who went down to the water with him that night.

By Sunday morning Tavy is in the millpond. A thread of Naomi's green scarf is caught on the sluice. An email Tavy sent at three in the morning names her. And Tavy had written to the police in January to accuse her.

Only one of the old friends seems to be on Naomi's side: Lydia, the barrister, who always knows exactly what to say. Then a solicitor in a bow tie delivers a letter, addressed to Lydia, in a dead woman's handwriting.

It begins: You're going to burn this.

The Last Good Weekend is a twisty domestic thriller told by two women who were once best friends, and by the one who planned it all.

• Short chapters, three narrators, and a twist you can go back and find every clue for. • No sexual content and no violence on the page. The danger is in what old friends will stay silent about. • Set in the present-day Cotswolds, Stroud and Bristol over one February and March.

Perfect for readers of Lucy Foley, Lisa Jewell and Claire Douglas.

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She let a stranger into the house where her husband died. The stranger had a key.

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All summer, the notes have come through Claire Hatherley's letterbox. Three words, printed, no name. Five of them by October — and now she needs the money, so she lets the top room of her tall Cheltenham townhouse to a quiet young woman called Ivy.

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It is the house where Claire's first husband fell to his death fifteen years ago. On the first afternoon, Claire sees the old brass key on her lodger's keyring. It is the key that vanished the night he died.

Ivy has come to prove Claire killed him. Claire has been lying about that night for fifteen years. And neither of them knows the truth — because the one person in the house who does has been waiting all summer for somebody brave enough to find it.

The Lodger's Key is a twisty domestic thriller about a staircase, a lie, a missing phone and a key that fits a door it shouldn't — told by two women who each think they know what happened in the house on Albemarle Terrace.

• Two narrators, short chapters, and a twist you can go back and find the clues for. • A domestic thriller with no sexual content and very little violence on the page — the danger is in the house. • Set in present-day Cheltenham over one October.

Perfect for readers of Freida McFadden, Alice Feeney and Lisa Jewell.

£4.99 · 150pp View book Free sample

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