'Pure genius. Absolutely brilliant' Shari Lapena
'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith' Ian Rankin
IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018
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WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down!
She's not who you think she is . . .
'I could probably have been an actress.
It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.
Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?'
Cordelia Russell has been living on the French Riviera for twenty-five years, passing herself off as an English socialite. But her luck, and the kindness of strangers, have run out.
The arrival of a visitor from her distant past...
Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her five novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond - have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.
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