One of the Good Guys

The Richard And Judy Bookclub Pick: This Is What Happens When Women Have Had Enough

Araminta Hall author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:13th Feb '25

Should be back in stock very soon

One of the Good Guys cover

A propulsive and twisty page-turner with razor-sharp sociopolitical insight, One of the Good Guys asks: if most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Now in B Format.

The blistering feminist thriller from critically acclaimed writer Araminta Hall.

'Every single woman out there needs to read this, because you either know this man, or you know a woman who knows this man' – @bookwormescapes

'Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable' – Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True

'One of the most daring and intriguing writers working today' – Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

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Cole is the perfect husband: a romantic, supportive of his wife, Mel’s career, keen to be a hands-on dad, not a big drinker. A good guy.

So when Mel leaves him, he's floored. She was lucky to be with a man like him.

Craving solitude, he accepts a job on the coast and quickly settles into his new life where he meets reclusive artist Lennie.

Lennie has made the same move for similar reasons. She is living in a crumbling cottage on the edge of a nearby cliff. It’s an undeniably scary location, but sometimes you have to face your fears to get past them.

As their relationship develops, two young women go missing while on a walk protesting gendered violence, right by where Cole and Lennie live. Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy, it soon becomes clear that they don’t know each other very well at all.

This is what happens when women have had enough.

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'This book will hook you from the first page' – Alice Feeney, author of Daisy Darker

'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times

One of the most daring and intriguing writers working today. Her writing is so addictive, her characters so sharply realized. One of the Good Guys is a resonant, razor-laced and dangerously glittering novel -- Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl
Scorching, smart and soaked in feminist rage, this is a suspense that stays with you long after the last page -- Ellery Lloyd, author of The Club
It got me by the throat and wouldn’t let go. It’s creepy, thought-provoking, compelling and so very relevant -- Julie Cohen, author of Eat Slay Love
A scintillating thriller and a scorching condemnation of how differently society treats men versus women -- Kellye Garrett, author of Missing White Woman
A mind-bending tour de force. Araminta Hall has always been one of my favorite writers, but what she has done here is groundbreaking. This thriller is shocking, twisted, dark, and absolutely on-point -- Samantha Downing, author of A Twisted Love Story
A riveting and kaleidoscopic look at women swept up in the current of toxic masculinity and the blowback when they pull themselves to safety empowering and inspirational -- Ivy Pochoda, author of Sing Her Down
A dark, original and thought-provoking read. This book will hook you from the first page and keep you thinking long after the last -- Alice Feeney, author of Good Bad Girl
Provocative, surprising and entirely original, this tale of power and gender will not only have you looking at the world a different way, but will have you looking at yourself a different way -- Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of One Wrong Word
This book delves into the painful and messy complexities of misogyny, consent and gendered power dynamics with an unflinching narrative scalpel -- Phillippa East, author of A guilty Secret
A book for the #metoo generation that taps into all kinds of fears/hopes/difficulties that come with the movement -- Louise Swanson, author of Lights Out
Araminta Hall is a master of suspense, and her latest novel is a timely, thrilling tale that offers no easy villains or heroes, but loads of surprises. Beautifully written, deliciously tense and entirely surprising – I tore through it -- Julia Dahl, author of I Dreamed of Falling
A bold and on-point feminist thriller about gendered violence with Gone Girl twistiness and narrator unreliability -- Victoria Selman, Truly, Darkly, Deeply
A dark, dazzling shock to the system. One of the Good Guys is clever, composed, exciting and frightening -- Chris Whitaker, author of All the Colours of the Dark
It's so clever it blew my mind a bit. It's about men and women and trust and art and violence and safety. And it's just excellent -- Laura Pearson, author of Nobody's Wife
An absolutely thrilling tale, full of breathless cliffside terror and fresh feminist theory masked in tight, propulsive mystery. I devoured this book -- Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women
An intriguing mix of psychological thriller and contemporary feminist fable. -- Daily Mail
I can’t express this enough when I say, trust no one. Brilliant, timely and necessary. Really enjoyed it -- Dorothy Koomson, author of Every Smile You Fake
One of the Good Guys doesn't just tell a story. It makes you think, it makes you angry, and it makes you want to read it again -- Caz Frear, author of Five Bad Deeds
A story that will stay with you long after the last page. Terrifying because it all reads so painfully true and familiar if you are a woman nowadays. -- Laure Van Rensburg, author of The Good Daughter
Clever, disturbing, challenging, twisty and utterly compelling. A brilliant, thought-provoking novel for our times. -- Peter James, author of They Thought I Was Dead
WOW. As compelling as it is arch; as shocking as it a salutary reminder of what it means to be a woman today. What a read! -- Lizzy Barber, author of Nanny Wanted ,i/>
'Truly chilling, enraging and satisfying all at the same time!' -- Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange
A thriller that is timely, unsettling and so very relevant. Superb. -- David Fennell, author of A Violent Heart
Compelling, provocative, dazzlingly clever. -- CM Ewan, author of The House Hunt
Part thriller, part social commentary on what it is to be a woman, this is a thought-provoking read. -- Fabulous Magazine
When two women go missing, a couple finds themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy in this psychological thriller about gender and power. -- Irish Examiner
Hall is fantastically good at upending expectations and pulling the wool over her readers’ eyes, so I can’t say much more without giving things away – but this exploration of female rage isn’t what you think it’s going to be. -- Observer
This twisty tale will keep you on your toes -- Crime Monthly
Araminta Hall slowly and carefully brings the reader into the story, which highlights that no one is perfect or fully ‘good’, touching on issues of security and control. -- Belfast Telegraph
A credible and confronting tale seething with insightful suspense -- Woman’s Weekly
Original, hauntingly dark, and so clever! Hall's feminist tour de force, One Of The Good Guys, shines a light on how easy it can be for strong women to be coerced and manipulated by 'good' men...and how easily these men hide in plain sight -- Natali Simmonds, author of Good Girls Die Last
Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable. -- Lisa Jewell, author of None of This is True

ISBN: 9781035018123

Dimensions: 197mm x 131mm x 22mm

Weight: 230g

336 pages