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Can You Keep a Secret?

By: Karen Perry
Narrated by: Grainne Gillis
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Penguin presents the audio download edition of Can You Keep a Secret by Karen Perry, read by Grainne Gillis.

It's been twenty years since Lindsey has seen her best friend Rachel

Twenty years since she has set foot in Thornbury Hall - the now crumbling home of the Bagenal family - where they spent so much time as teenagers. Since Patrick Bagenal's 18th birthday party, the night everything changed.

It's time for a reunion

Patrick has decided on one last hurrah before closing the doors of his family home for good. All of the old crowd, back together for a weekend.

For the secrets to come out

It's not long before secrets begin to float to the surface. Everything that Lindsey shared with her best friend at sixteen and everything that she didn't.

But some secrets should never be told. They need to be taken to the grave. While others require revenge at any cost.

 Crime Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

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Critic reviews

Dramatic, when a group of friends reunite in a spooky Irish stately home, the secrets soon come tumbling out
Elegantly written and beautifully paced, Can You Keep A Secret? is a fluent, subtle and chilling novel (Declan Hughes)
A Top Ten Crime Read for Autumn
An engaging thriller
Praise for Karen Perry (-)
The book is beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations
Like Gone Girl . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages
A truly remarkable novel ...Written in a captivating, lyrical style and brilliantly structured, the story grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go
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
Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page
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So many wonderful actors like Caroline Lennon could have brought this book to life instead of trying to bludgeon it to death with grim, prim and so totally affected 1970's RTE continuity announcer style accent and intonation which tortured every sentence with mention of dawgs, fawwtherrs , saowftness and of course one of the main characters Paaaawtrick. Not to mention his surname which disturbingly sounded like Vaginal adding to the endless crimes against vowels continually perpetrated. However this was nothing compared to the stomach churning character voices which ranged from sounding much like Ross O'Carroll Kelly on a bad day for the men, to all the charm of nails on a blackboard for the women. It is a testament to the book that I managed to finish this ingeniously plotted book with the self conscious, grating heavy weather made of it by the narrator and how I wish I had read it old style rather than listened to it read in this strangled and strange affected accent. DIRE or as the narrator might say DOIRE!

ATTEMPTED MURDER OF GOOD THRILLER BY iNSUFFERABLE NARRATER

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