Girl Unknown

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Girl Unknown by Karen Perry, read by Conor Maloney, Tracy Keating and Richard Flood.

'Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page' Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Richard & Judy book club pick Lying in Wait


'I think you might be my father . . .'

When first-year student Zoë Barry walks into Professor David Connolly's office and tentatively says these words, he is left reeling. But it is the lives of his family - particularly his wife Caroline - which are turned upside down by the arrival of this stranger.

A daughter, a sister, a friend . . . an enemy?

Though no one knows quite who Zoë is, she is soon entangled in their lives. Yet her stories don't ring true and Caroline is determined to learn if the girl is the unlucky innocent she claims to be or someone with a far darker agenda.

A deadly cuckoo in the nest . . .

Because by letting Zoë in, David and Caroline aren't just leaving themselves vulnerable. They're risking the most precious thing in the world - the lives of their children . . .


Praise for Girl Unknown

'Karen Perry writes intense psychological thrillers that explore emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy, and this may be their best yet' Tana French, bestselling author of The Trespasser

'This story of psychological attrition builds to an incredibly tense finale - before delivering an amazing final twist, Riveting stuff' Sunday Mirror

'One of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page' Irish Independent

'A taut, tense psycho-gripper' Sunday Sport

Critics Review

  • Praise For Karen Perry

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  • Stunning

    Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club

  • I shot through this in one sitting. Like Gone Girl, it’s told alternately by a husband and his wife. At the very beginning, something very shocking happens . . . It’s the most gripping thing I’ve read for ages

    Evening Standard

  • Beautifully written, tense and twisty tale

    Sunday Mirror

  • The book is beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations

    Best Crime Fiction of 2015, The Telegraph

  • This is an intense and subtle story with some wonderfully poetic passages and a character driven plot which becomes more compelling as the sense of momentum gathers and the true version of events is slowly revealed. Gripping stuff

    Sunday Mirror

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