The gripping new thriller in the Stephanie King series, available now.
WOULD YOU KEEP A SECRET FOR A STRANGER, IF IT MEANT THE BLOOD WAS ON YOUR HANDS?

‘An irresistibly twisty novel that demands to be binge-read … kept me hooked until the final, jaw-dropping pages’ D. S. Butler

‘Relentless pacing and unexpected twists makes this a must-read.’ John Marrs

‘Will leave you reeling. Prepare yourselves. My flabber was well and truly gasted.’ Jen Med’s Book Reviews

‘A modern day Agatha Christie’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Reader review


Celia, Juliette and Nadia are complete strangers with one thing in common: they have all been wronged by Ellis Cobain. A wealthy philanthropist on course for a knighthood, Ellis’ public persona is bulletproof – but lurking beneath this veneer is a sinister side that only the women closest to him have seen.

When they meet at a boutique hotel on the Cornish coast, brought together by the blind arrogance of their tormentor, they realise what connects them and form a pact: to blackmail him and free themselves from his grasp.

But when he is discovered the next morning, murdered in cold blood, they are left scrambling. None of them knows who did it, and now they must desperately cover their tracks.

Will they keep each other’s secrets, now they are all implicated in his death? Will one turn on the others, when any of them could be next?

I would like to thank Wildfire Books for sending me an advance copy of this book.

I had been looking forward to reading this fourth installment in the Stephanie King series and, as usual, Rachel Abbott didn’t disappoint. It is a fast-paced story that made me keep turning the pages until I reached the end. It is the kind of book that make you wish you could take the day off so you can just continue reading it until you discover what’s going on.

This book was quite surprising and it is hard to write a review without giving out spoilers, so I will be brief and mysterious. That means that, if you want to know what I am talking about, you’d better run and buy yourself a copy of this phenomenal thriller. A small setting, a set of possible culprits, an impossible murder… the book certainly gives Agatha Christie vibes and I enjoyed it even more for that.

Set in the moody area of Cornwall, what else could you ask for in a thrilling rollercoaster of a book? In this thriller, not everything is what it looks like, so don’t even blink or you will miss the twists that are so characteristic in Rachel Abbott’s writing.

Anyhow, for all of that, I give this book… 4 TEA CUPS!