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Bloomsbury presents Rabbit Hole by Kate Brody, read by Stephanie Cannon.

**A Jennette McCurdy book club pick**
**Cosmopolitan, The 20 best books to look forward to in 2024**
**An Independent Book of the Month**

'I loved it: the fast pace, the wry protagonist, and how Brody painfully examines the measures we take to find closure' Jennette McCurdy
'A brilliant, dark debut about grief and the way in which the internet can magnify mania' Mail on Sunday
'I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral' Kate Reed Petty
'A twisty, pacy crime thriller' independent.co.uk
'A mindblowing debut' Heather Darwent
'A gritty tale of grief, family secrets and addiction' Observer

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A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession – by a striking new talent

Teddy Angstrom is no stranger to morbid public interest in her family’s tragedies. And when her father dies suddenly, ten years to the day after her sister Angie’s disappearance, she intends to maintain as much privacy as she always has.

Clearing out her father’s office, however, Teddy discovers her father’s double life: a decade-long investigation into wild conspiracies from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie. Repelled and compelled in equal measure by this new online dimension, Teddy finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole.

So when nineteen-year-old Mickey, a charming amateur internet sleuth, materialises in real life, Teddy determines that the two of them are going to team up to find out what really happened to Angie – and whether there’s any chance she might still be alive.

But as she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories, Teddy doesn’t notice that her obsession is making her increasingly self-destructive. And she’s in way over her head before she’s realises that Mickey, too, is not all she seems…

Noirish, haunting and razor-sharp, as compulsive as a late-night Reddit binge, Rabbit Hole is an unforgettable debut about violence, family and grief.

'A smart and edgy mystery that kept me turning pages from start to finish' Alexis Schaitkin
‘I absolutely loved this book … I couldn't put it down’ Ainslie Hogarth
'An unputdownable debut from a writer I would follow anywhere' Allie Rowbottom

Critics Review

A twisty, pacy crime thriller with wit and unusual plotlines … Has some telling things to say about the voyeuristic and entitled nature of fetishistic true crime fans

independent.co.uk, Books of the month

A compelling study of grief, betrayal, the slippery nature of memory and our complicated relationship with other people’s tragedies

GUARDIAN, Best crime and thrillers round-up

While very much a thriller-style hunt for what happened, Brody’s debut is more accurately a sensitive, psychological investigation into the long-term, traumatic impact of lingering, unresolved grief

MARIE CLAIRE, Best books of 2024 to curl up with

Kate Brody’s debut has all the trappings of a true crime podcast … A gritty, grubby tale of grief, family secrets and addiction

OBSERVER

An excellent read

THE i

A brilliant, dark debut about grief and the way in which the internet can magnify mania

MAIL ON SUNDAY

A searing portrayal of loss, adolescence, and grief with all the twists and turns of a thriller. Teddy is a fantastically compelling narrator and her relationship with Mickey is twisted yet perfectly believable. I tore through this in a few days – a mindblowing debut

HEATHER DARWENT, author of The Things We Do to Our Friends

A page-turner in the best sense, the most startling aspect of this brilliantly accomplished novel is that it’s Brody’s debut outing

THE LIST

Kate Brody and her writing will hold you by the throat until you finish the last page breathless in need of a lie down in a dark room. I was OBSESSED!

DEBUT DIGEST

A thrilling mystery

COSMOPOLITAN, The 20 best books to look forward to in 2024

In this smart, chilling page-turner, a high school English teacher obsessed with her older sister’s long-ago disappearance gets caught up in Reddit conspiracy theories

PEOPLE MAGAZINE

A dark, absorbing evocation of grief, loss and strained familial ties, painfully capturing how damaging the search for answers can be on the survivors of tragedy. A page-turner in the best sense, the most startling aspect of this brilliantly accomplished novel is that it’s Brody’s debut outing

THE LIST

A beautifully written and astutely observed literary thriller

PHILIPPA EAST, author of I'll Never Tell

For anyone who’s ever indulged in a late-night Reddit binge or has found themselves in the amateur sleuthing vortex of true crime junkies, Rabbit Hole follows a woman who becomes obsessed with solving the cold-case disappearance of her older sister

NYLON

I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral … It’s a pitch-black story about ambiguous loss, and a blazingly feminist take on the self-destructive pull of the internet. And it’s poignant. And it’s unflinching. And that ending! Kate Brody is a star

KATE REED PETTY, author of True Story

A smart and edgy mystery that kept me turning pages feverishly from start to finish … This is a story about girlhood, grief, the slippery nature of memory, and our society’s true crime obsession, and Brody delivers insights on these themes in prose that is both raw and beautiful. As we follow Teddy on her downward spiral, we are forced to ask: How much is the truth worth?

ALEXIS SCHAITKIN, AUTHOR OF Saint X

From the first line, Brody’s novel had its hands around my throat. While Rabbit Hole has the pace and intrigue of a thriller, and brutal and evocative prose, what makes it standout is its narrator, Brody’s refusal to soften her edges or portray her as anything less than a young woman savaged by grief. I followed breathlessly along, both wishing I could stop Teddy’s Internet-fueled descent into madness and eagerly awaiting the next dark, delicious corner she’d lead me

JEAN KYOUNG FRAZIER, author of Pizza Girl

I absolutely loved this book. Rabbit Hole is an unflinching portrait of grief and obsession, as well as a genuinely gripping mystery. The characters feel raw and real, the story is dark and timely. I couldn’t put it down

AINSLIE HOGARTH, author of Motherthing

Blistering, sexy, concentric and dark, Rabbit Hole is the ultimate literary thriller for the digital age, a Reddit whodunnit that is at once hyper-modern, and grounded by the deep emotionality of Kate Brody’s enduring questions about grief and girlhood, caretaking and identity and how, in the absence of truth, to live a meaningful life. An unputdownable debut from a writer I would follow anywhere

ALLIE ROWBOTTOM, author of Jell-O Girls and Aesthetica

A troubling mystery rustles its feathers beneath Brody’s gritty, gorgeous prose. Brody shows how the internet bewitches us, how we seek it out looking for an escape but instead are confronted by our own shadow-selves. Tense and engrossing

BEA SETTON, author of Berlin

Kate Brody’s multifaceted debut combines sensitive characterization, wry narration, and use of modern technology worthy of Jennifer Egan with the brilliantly evocative suspense of a Tana French novel…I was riveted!

JOANNA MARGARET, author of The Bequest

I absolutely loved this book. Rabbit Hole is an unflinching portrait of grief and obsession, as well as a genuinely gripping mystery. The characters feel raw and real, the story is dark and timely. I couldn’t put it down

AINSLIE HOGARTH, author of Motherthing

A witty and moving exploration of grief and obsession as well as a page-turning mystery, Rabbit Hole sucked me in more than any Reddit conspiracy theory thread ever could

ISABEL KAPLAN, author of NSFW

A taut story of family and letting secrets go

INDIE NEXT

Full of twists and surprises, genuine mystery and startling psychological portraits, Rabbit Hole is a profound exploration into the nature of grief and identity. It is also an unsettling investigation into the shadowy line that separates the real world from the digital

BOOKTRIB

Brody’s debut is visceral and at times gut-wrenching, exploring the ways grief and a need for answers can be exacerbated and exploited by a culture obsessed with true-crime stories. Powerful and unforgettable

BOOKLIST

Brody’s sure-footed debut paints a harrowing portrait of a life derailed by internet conspiracy theories … Brody explores in elegant prose potent themes both contemporary (internet addiction) and evergreen (grief)

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

A highly anticipated novel from a new talent, centred around family secrets. obsession and true crime

LUXURY LONDON

Kate Brody’s debut novel, Rabbit Hole, is an unflinching exploration of grief, family and true crime, which will have you gripped in a chokehold until the final page

NB MAGAZINE

A wonderfully dark debut

WRITING NORTH

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