A J McDine

How well do you really know your own family? The wife: Eve is desperate for her life to be perfect. Living in a beautiful house, with gorgeous views of the countryside, is all she’s ever wanted. And she’ll do whatever it takes to hold onto her dream life.

I thought he was dead. Until I saw him staring back at me… Ten years have passed since my beloved sister was murdered, leaving behind her sweet five-year-old daughter, Lily.

I thought my first husband died ten years ago. But now he’s back... Opening the front door, I’m stunned to see a familiar face. I never thought I’d see Freddie’s deep brown eyes and crooked smile again. But how is this possible when he died ten years ago…?

One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me. It’s all I’ve ever wanted, but this baby is not mine....

Sophie Saunders has the perfect life. Happily married to handsome Matt and expecting her first baby, she is the envy of her childhood friend, Lou. Lou's family has splintered. Her husband is dead and her son has left home. She would give anything to turn back the clock. But there's a secret...

No One I Knew is the compulsive new psychological thriller by A J McDine. Praying her daughter’s still alive. Fearing her past is about to take its revenge. When three-year-old Immy vanishes during a family barbecue, her mother, Cleo, imagines the worst. Has she fallen into the river at the...

It was an invite to die for… When the anonymous invite arrived, we knew exactly who it was from. Elle Romero, the beautiful, charismatic Texan who burst into our lives when we were teenagers. We'd gone our separate ways and lost touch. Until now. Elle, the legendary prankster, is back. She's...

Best friends. Broken promises. Buried secrets. Ten years ago Rose made a promise to help her goddaughter Eloise if she was ever in trouble. A promise she may live to regret. But she meant every word… until the night Eloise turns up on her doorstep covered in blood and asking for the...

Alana: She’s outside my house again. She must think I haven’t seen her, that I don’t notice her watching me. I’m shocked by how similar we look. I have no idea why she’s here. But her arrival could change everything.

The perfect boyfriend...or the perfect liar? Should Have Known Better is the tense new psychological thriller by A J McDine. It’s the moment single-mum Kate has been dreading. With her only daughter, Chloe, about to leave home, she’s terrified by the prospect of an empty nest. That is until...

Den dag hun fik at vide, at hun aldrig ville kunne få sine egne børn, faldt alt fra hinanden. En morgen er hendes mands side af sengen tom. Nedenunder, midt på gulvtæppet, ligger en baby i en gammel kommodeskuffe og blinker op til hende. Men barnet er ikke hendes...

Él es todo lo que siempre has soñado. Pero no es tuyo. El día que recibí la noticia de que nunca podría tener hijos propios, todo se derrumbó. Mi marido dice que todavía me quiere, pero paso las noches en vela, anhelando desesperadamente algo que nunca tendremos: una familia.