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What to expect

The incredible new thriller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author!

Everyone here is a liar, but only one of us is a killer…

Welcome to the McAlpine Lodge: a remote mountain getaway, it’s the height of escapist luxury living.

Except that everyone here is lying. Lying about their past. Lying to their family. Lying to themselves.

Then one night, Mercy McAlpine – until now the good daughter – threatens to expose everybody's secrets. Just hours later, Mercy is dead.

In an area this remote, it’s easy to get away with murder. But Will Trent and Sara Linton – investigator and medical examiner for the GBI – are here on their honeymoon.

And now, with the killer poised to strike again, the holiday of a lifetime becomes a race against the clock…

Critics Review

  • Praise for Karin Slaughter

    ‘Compulsive reading’ Clare Mackintosh

    ‘Never less than nail-biting’ The Times

    ‘Twisty, touching and intense. I find it totally absorbing’ Adele Parks

    ‘A dark, sophisticated gem of a read’ Janice Hallett

    ‘Heart-stopping one moment, heart-breaking the next’ Cara Hunter

    ‘Her heroines are believable, flawed and courageous’ Oyinkan Braithwaite

    ‘Passion, intensity, and humanity’ Lee Child

    ‘Absorbing’ Sunday Times

    ‘I’d follow her anywhere’ Gillian Flynn

    ‘An effortlessly accomplished thriller’ The Times

    ‘One of the boldest thriller writers working today’ Tess Gerritsen

    ‘Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled’ Michael Connelly

    ‘A writer of extraordinary talents’ Kathy Reichs

    ‘Fiction doesn’t get any better than this’ Jeffery Deaver

    ‘A great writer at the peak of her powers’ Peter James

    ‘It’s big, dark, rich, satisfying, and bloody – like a perfectly cooked steak’ Stuart MacBride

    ‘Slaughter has always been adroit at supplying a steady accretion of menacing detail in her Will Trent/Sara Linton series’ Financial Times (Best summer crime books of 2023)

    ‘The queen of the explosive thriller’ Good Housekeeping

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