The Wicked Girls
On sale
16th February 2012
Price: £9.99
Edgar Awards, 2014
Genre
The word-of-mouth bestselling debut from multi-award-winning bestseller Alex Marwood
‘Alex Marwood is in a class of her own’ LISA JEWELL, author of The Family Upstairs
Don’t miss Alex Marwood’s sensational new thriller, The Island of Lost Girls, out now!
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That’s us. We’re the girls who killed Chloe. We are the devil now.
One fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time and by the end of the day are charged with murder.
Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside town when her investigation leads her to interview funfair cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it’s the first time they’ve seen each other since that dark day when they were just children. But with new lives – and families – to protect, will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?
An absolutely gripping, ripped-from-the-headlines psychological thriller, perfect for fans of The Suspect by Fiona Barton and The Rumour by Lesley Kara
‘[I] devoured every page . . . cleverly plotted and pacy, with all the storylines thundering towards a final, gripping conclusion. I loved it’ ELIZABETH HAYNES
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Praise for Alex Marwood
‘So good I wish I’d written it myself’ VAL MCDERMID
‘Scary as hell’ STEPHEN KING
‘Marwood blends story-telling prowess with characters so real that we inhabit their predicaments quite viscerally’ SOPHIE HANNAH
‘Without a doubt, she is one of crime fiction’s brightest stars’ MEGAN ABBOTT
‘I’m in awe’ MARK EDWARDS
‘I cancel all engagements and turn off my phone for a new Alex Marwood book’ ERIN KELLY
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Reviews
The Wicked Girls is utterly compelling. It's psychologically rich, complex and masterfully plotted. I couldn't put it down, even when I sensed it was taking me somewhere very dark indeed. I can't wait to see what Alex Marwood comes up with next
A rundown seaside amusement park provides the backdrop for Marwood's memorable first novel . . . Marwood fills this disturbing thriller with sordid red herrings and brutal reflections
One of the best books I read this year: The suspense keeps the pages flying, but what sets this one apart is the palpable sense of onrushing doom
Having read it and devoured every page, I really wish I'd written it! It was cleverly plotted and pacy, with all the storylines thundering towards a final, gripping conclusion. I loved it
The best thriller I've read since Sister. Taut, gritty and utterly compelling
Genuinely disturbing and emotionally unsettling, The Wicked Girls is irresistible
I devoured The Wicked Girls over one weekend and loved it. I held my breath during the last few chapters
The Wicked Girls is ingenious and original -- a novel that surprises and rewards its readers, delivering a twist of an ending that I never saw coming, then realised it was the only ending that could truly satisfy. Real, chilling, true to its world and its characters. In short, a knock-out
Original, thought-provoking and utterly brilliant
In The Wicked Girls, debut author Alex Marwood's taut crime story poses bigger questions about tabloid witch hunts and the nature of evil