Girl Unknown
The unputdownable SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER with a heart stopping twist . . .
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:1st Dec '16
Should be back in stock very soon
When first-year student Zoe Barry walks into university professor David Connolly's office and announces that she is his daughter, he is left reeling. Suddenly his family - imperfect, flawed, but working - is trying to find space for someone new.
The ADDICTIVE THRILLER perfect for fans of Fiona Barton's The Child and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone.
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'I think you might be my father . . .'
Zoe Barry walks into Professor David Connelly's office and tentatively says these words.
The lives of his family - particularly his wife Caroline - are turned upside down by the arrival of this stranger.
A cuckoo in their nest
Zoe soon entangles herself in their world but her stories aren't quite adding up and Caroline isn't sure she can be trusted.
Is Zoe who she claims she is, or someone with a far darker agenda?
A daughter, a sister, a stranger . . .
By letting Zoe in, David and Caroline aren't the only ones who are vulnerable.
They're risking the lives of the most precious thing in the world - the lives of their children . . .
. . . a killer?
Praise for Girl Unknown
'This story of psychological attrition builds to an incredibly tense finale - before delivering an amazing final twist. Riveting stuff' Sunday Mirror
'Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page' Liz Nugent, bestselling author of Lying in Wait
'Karen Perry writes intense psychological thrillers that explore emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy, and this may be their best yet' Tana French, bestselling author of The Trespasser
'One of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page' Irish Independent
'A taut, tense psycho-gripper' Sunday Sport
Praise for Girl Unknown * - *
Full of intrigue and incident and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page -- Liz Nugent * bestselling author of Lying in Wait *
Karen Perry writes intense psychological thrillers that explore emotional danger with relentless, surgical accuracy, and this may be their best yet -- Tana French * Irish Independent, Books of the Year *
Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page * Irish Independent *
This story of psychological attrition builds to an incredibly tense finale - before delivering an amazing final twist. Riveting stuff * Sunday Mirror *
A profoundly disturbing, beautifully written story . . . An unputdownable novel that deftly examines the cost of misguided compassion, leading to a stunning conclusion you won't see coming. Karen Perry delivers again -- Michelle Richmond * bestselling author of The Marriage Pact *
Taunt, tense psycho-gripper * Sunday Sport *
Loved it * Lucy Mangan *
Praise for Karen Perry * - *
Stunning -- Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club
I shot through this in one sitting. Like Gone Girl . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages * Evening Standard *
Beautifully written, tense and twisty tale * Sunday Mirror *
Beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations -- Best Crime Fiction of 2015 * Telegraph *
A twist-filled page-turner * Closer *
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 * Sunday Mirror *
ISBN: 9781405920308
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 24mm
Weight: 277g
400 pages