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Such a Nice Girl
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Such a Nice Girl

By: Andrea Mara
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‘The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone’s child.’

Get ready for your new obsession - it will make you question everything. Pre-order the gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Andrea Mara.

Everyone has secrets. Even your daughter…

The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood stain on the carpet, a ringing phone – and both girls are nowhere to be seen.

The police come and you discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Is one of your daughters trying to kill the other? And that’s when you and your best friend begin to unravel what's really going on between the girls.

You need to work together to find your daughters, testing your friendship to its limits. And you can’t help but wonder: which girl is the killer and which is the victim?

Everyone is talking about Andrea Mara:

'Impossible to put down'. Chris Whitaker
'Andrea Mara is a star.' Lee Child
'Probably the most suspenseful book I will read all year.' Liz Nugent

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Critic reviews

Such a Nice Girl is, in my opinion a 'Wow' book - another surefire bestseller for Andrea. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. So many twists and turns! I had no idea who was telling the truth or who was spinning lies. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride while reading it. Andrea is brilliant at plotting. A fantastic premise, executed flawlessly. I can see it as a movie!
'Utterly gripping from the first to the last page. I devoured it! A masterclass in maternal fear and buried secrets.'
What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It’ll leave your head spinning. Mara remains at the top of her game and I’m here for it.
An incredibly addictive, expertly plotted page-turner full of surprises. Every time I thought I’d worked it out, the story twisted again right up to its chilling conclusion. Bravo Andrea Mara, I am sure this is going to fly off the shelves.
Mothers. Daughters. Killers. Victims. The combinations are deadly in Andrea Mara's clever, clever new thriller, a novel that pits its characters against one another with real invention, real force. It's genuinely involving, too, as an exploration of friendship and parenthood. This is a good one.
Praise for Andrea Mara
Andrea Mara is a star.
I was hooked from first page to last as the twists got twistier and all of the characters squirmed while waiting for their darkest secrets to be revealed. May I suggest a new Irish blessing? May you never live in a neighbourhood created by Andrea Mara.
Ingenious plotting, brilliantly written, pacy and totally unpredictable, I devoured it over a weekend...Absolutely outstanding!
This heart-thumpingly tense thriller may give you nightmares.
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