THE INCREDIBLY GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE
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In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people’s lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege – the residents have it all. Life is good.
There’s just one problem.
Olive Collins’ dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they’re shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight.
The police start to ask questions and the seemingly flawless façade begins to crack. Because, when it comes to Olive’s neighbours, it seems each of them has something to hide, something to lose and everything to gain from her death.
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PRAISE FOR JO SPAIN
‘Loved, loved, loved’ Caz Frear
‘Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister’ Will Dean
‘You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this’ Yours
(P) 2020 Quercus Editions Limited
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In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people’s lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege – the residents have it all. Life is good.
There’s just one problem.
Olive Collins’ dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they’re shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight.
The police start to ask questions and the seemingly flawless façade begins to crack. Because, when it comes to Olive’s neighbours, it seems each of them has something to hide, something to lose and everything to gain from her death.
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PRAISE FOR JO SPAIN
‘Loved, loved, loved’ Caz Frear
‘Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister’ Will Dean
‘You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this’ Yours
(P) 2020 Quercus Editions Limited
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Reviews
It's a winning combination of locked room (or in this case locked estate) mystery and incisive social commentary
Spain conjures up a brilliant setting for this murder mystery, with a fantastically imagined cast of characters
Wonderfully drawn characters and more secrets and motives than you can shake a stick at. Loved, loved, loved
Dirty Little Secrets has got a real touch of Murder on the Orient Express about it - a closed room mystery filled with nasty people and abundant motives. A real page-turner
Sensational. . . taut and claustrophobic, wickedly plotted and laced with the kind of dark humour that lifts Jo Spain to the top of my reading pile every single time
Has you addicted from the very first page. I found it impossible to put down
Enthralling - Spain dissects her characters' secrets with razor-sharp precision
An intriguing Rubik's Cube of a book that kept me turning the pages to get to the truth. So well plotted and beautifully written. I absolutely loved it
Loved it! Fabulous characters, superbly written, twists, turns & ends with a punch
Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister. Superb
A book to sink into with a cast of characters you'll genuinely care about... completely memorable... a gorgeous read
[A] sophisticated new crime novel
A fabulously entertaining whodunit, with a sly wit and a wonderful detective duo
[An] Agatha Christie-esque and emotion-charged locked-estate mystery
This is a winner in my book
She's absolutely hit her stride
Irish crime fiction's current hot-ticket... busy, imaginative, cleverly structured and zippily-paced
An engrossing and compelling story that will have you reading well into the night as you keep telling yourself, "just one more chapter"
Try if you liked Our House by Louise Candlish . . . a very intelligent whodunnit
Deliberately evocative of classic Golden Age mysteries... the novel is deliciously cynical in tone
Fans of Desperate Housewives will love this . . . a real page-turner
You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this