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Girl Unknown

The unputdownable SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER with a heart stopping twist

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Girl Unknown

By: Karen Perry
Narrated by: Conor Maloney, Richard Flood, Tracy Keating
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Summary

The ADDICTIVE THRILLER perfect for fans of Fiona Barton's The Child and Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone.

'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

© Karen Perry 2016 (P) Penguin Audio 2016

Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Suspense

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Praise For Karen Perry
Stunning
I shot through this in one sitting. Like Gone Girl, it's told alternately by a husband and his wife. At the very beginning, something very shocking happens . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages
Beautifully written, tense and twisty tale
The book is beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations
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
All stars
Most relevant
The narrators, the story had me absolutely transfixed so much so I would linger in bed in the morning to listen longer and a couple fo times even sat on the couch with
My morning tea busting to see what happened next. Fabulous story, so beautifully written and perfectly told.

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