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Playing Nice
- Author
- JP Delaney
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 28 July 2020
- Run Time
- 10 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction, Political / legal thriller, Psychological thriller
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete's two-year-old, Theo, isn't Pete's real son - their babies got mixed up at birth.
The two families agree that, rather than swap the boys back, they'll try to find a more flexible way to share their children's lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an investigation that unearths disturbing questions about just what happened the day the babies were switched.
And when Theo is thrown out of nursery for hitting other children, the Rileys have to ask themselves: how far do they want this arrangement to go? What secrets lie hidden behind the Lamberts' smart front door? How much can they trust the real parents of their child - or even each other?
See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers:
'DAZZLING' - Lee Child
'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express
'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail
'INGENIOUS' - New York Times
'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine
'ELEGANT' - Peter James
'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday
'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home
'ORIGINAL' - The Times
'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner
'CREEPY' - Heat
'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest
'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller
'MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS' - Sunday Times
(P)2020 Penguin Random House Audio
Critics Review
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There is a precision about Delaney's characters that propels his twisty plots into unexpected and utterly convincing scenarios
Daily Mail
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JP Delaney is King of Thrillers and Playing Nice is his best book yet
Fiona Cummins
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The kind of book that keeps you up at night
My Weekly
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Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant
CJ Tudor, author of The Chalk Man
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A tour-de-force . . . a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking psychological thriller
Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home
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Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Lee Child
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Original and brilliantly written
Sun
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Dynamic, razor-sharp and thought-provoking . . . A must read!
Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl
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Terrifying and heartfelt
Woman & Home
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A sensational baby-swap psychological thriller which melds domestic suspense with a slow-burn, terrifying menace
The Lancashire Post
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Fiendishly gripping, twist-packed thriller
Peterborough Telegraph
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[An] edge-of-seat psychological thriller
The Sunday Post
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This nail-biting, thought-provoking and utterly riveting thriller [...] comes from a writer who never fails to put extra mind-bending firepower into every story that comes from his magic pen ... Expect ingenious twists and turns
The Lancashire Post
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Details
- Author
- JP Delaney
- Narrator
- Amelia Cormack, Ben Elliot, Peter Forbes
- Duration
- 10 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 July 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529400823
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives, Thriller / suspense fiction, Political / legal thriller, Psychological thriller
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
*Now a major ITV and StudioCanal TV show starring James Norton and Niamh Algar*Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete's two-year-old, Theo, isn't Pete's real son - their babies got mixed up at birth.The two families agree that, rather than swap the boys back, they'll try to find a more flexible way to share their children's lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an investigation that unearths disturbing questions about just what happened the day the babies were switched.And when Theo is thrown out of nursery for hitting other children, the Rileys have to ask themselves: how far do they want this arrangement to go? What secrets lie hidden behind the Lamberts' smart front door? How much can they trust the real parents of their child - or even each other?See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers:'DAZZLING' - Lee Child'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail'INGENIOUS' - New York Times'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine'ELEGANT' - Peter James'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home'ORIGINAL' - The Times'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner'CREEPY' - Heat'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller'MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS' - Sunday Times(P)2020 Penguin Random House Audio
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