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Playing Nice

The addictive and chilling new thriller from the bestselling author of The Girl Before and The Perfect Wife

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Playing Nice

By: JP Delaney
Narrated by: Amelia Cormack, Ben Elliot, Peter Forbes
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Pete Riley answers the door one morning to a parent's worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, who breaks the devastating news that Pete's two-year-old, Theo, isn't Pete's real son - their babies got mixed up at birth.

The two families agree that, rather than swap the boys back, they'll try to find a more flexible way to share their children's lives. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an investigation that unearths disturbing questions about just what happened the day the babies were switched.

And when Theo is thrown out of nursery for hitting other children, the Rileys have to ask themselves: how far do they want this arrangement to go? What secrets lie hidden behind the Lamberts' smart front door? How much can they trust the real parents of their child - or even each other?


See what everyone is saying about JP Delaney, the hottest name in psychological thrillers:

'DAZZLING' - Lee Child
'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express
'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail
'INGENIOUS' - New York Times
'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine
'ELEGANT' - Peter James
'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday
'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home
'ORIGINAL' - The Times
'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner
'CREEPY' - Heat
'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest
'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller
'MORE THAN A MATCH FOR PAULA HAWKINS' - Sunday Times

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Critic Reviews

There is a precision about Delaney's characters that propels his twisty plots into unexpected and utterly convincing scenarios
JP Delaney is King of Thrillers and Playing Nice is his best book yet
The kind of book that keeps you up at night
Seriously, amazingly, awesomely brilliant
A tour-de-force . . . a compulsive and deeply thought-provoking psychological thriller
Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Original and brilliantly written
Dynamic, razor-sharp and thought-provoking . . . A must read!
Terrifying and heartfelt
A sensational baby-swap psychological thriller which melds domestic suspense with a slow-burn, terrifying menace
Fiendishly gripping, twist-packed thriller
[An] edge-of-seat psychological thriller
This nail-biting, thought-provoking and utterly riveting thriller [...] comes from a writer who never fails to put extra mind-bending firepower into every story that comes from his magic pen ... Expect ingenious twists and turns
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a great read, kept me interested and wanting to keep listening. highly recommend this book.




captivating

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I really enjoyed this book. Lots of twists and very clever. I didn’t want to stop listening and looked forward to my drives so that I could listen to more. The narration was excellent, especially with all of the different accents. Really well done.

Loved it!

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I really enjoyed this story apart from the parts where the 2 year old was doing certain things that would probably not be possible for a 2 year old. So just bare in mind this is fiction. Over all enjoyed the story. Was just very hard to see the toddler as 2. More like 4

Great Story fast paced.

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Whilst you could see where this was heading & often thought “really, are you going to do that “ the end was a surprise. Loved it. Couldn’t stop listening till the end.

Listened to it in one day

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Great story line, I tossed around who the bad guy was a few times, so kept my interest all the way through. Well read by the narrators.

Playing Nice - well not really....

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