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Dirty Little Secrets
- Author
- Jo Spain
- Narrator
- Michele Moran
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Publish Date
- 7 February 2019
- Run Time
- 10 hours 54 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good.
There's just one problem.
Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they're shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight.
The police start to ask questions and the seemingly flawless façade begins to crack. Because, when it comes to Olive's neighbours, it seems each of them has something to hide, something to lose and everything to gain from her death.
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PRAISE FOR JO SPAIN
'Loved, loved, loved' Caz Frear
'Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister' Will Dean
'You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this' Yours
(P) 2020 Quercus Editions Limited
Critics Review
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An engrossing and compelling story that will have you reading well into the night as you keep telling yourself, "just one more chapter"
My Weekly
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A fabulously entertaining whodunit, with a sly wit and a wonderful detective duo
Sunday Mirror
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Fans of Desperate Housewives will love this . . . a real page-turner
Woman's Weekly
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Wonderfully drawn characters and more secrets and motives than you can shake a stick at. Loved, loved, loved
Caz Frear, author of Sweet Little Lies
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Irish crime fiction's current hot-ticket... busy, imaginative, cleverly structured and zippily-paced
Irish Independent
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Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister. Superb
Will Dean, author of Dark Pines
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[An] Agatha Christie-esque and emotion-charged locked-estate mystery
Sunday Sport
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[A] sophisticated new crime novel
Sunday Times
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It's a winning combination of locked room (or in this case locked estate) mystery and incisive social commentary
Sinead Crowley, author of One Bad Turn
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This is a winner in my book
Woman’s Way, Book of the Week
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Spain conjures up a brilliant setting for this murder mystery, with a fantastically imagined cast of characters
Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake
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She's absolutely hit her stride
Books Ireland
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A book to sink into with a cast of characters you'll genuinely care about... completely memorable... a gorgeous read
Dervla McTiernan
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Dirty Little Secrets has got a real touch of Murder on the Orient Express about it - a closed room mystery filled with nasty people and abundant motives. A real page-turner
Araminta Hall, author of Our Kind of Cruelty
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Sensational. . . taut and claustrophobic, wickedly plotted and laced with the kind of dark humour that lifts Jo Spain to the top of my reading pile every single time
Chris Whitaker, author of Tall Oaks
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Loved it! Fabulous characters, superbly written, twists, turns & ends with a punch
Amanda Jennings, author of The Cliff House
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An intriguing Rubik's Cube of a book that kept me turning the pages to get to the truth. So well plotted and beautifully written. I absolutely loved it
Liz Nugent, author of Unravelling Oliver
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Has you addicted from the very first page. I found it impossible to put down
Michelle Frances, author of The Girlfriend
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Enthralling - Spain dissects her characters' secrets with razor-sharp precision
JP Delaney, author of The Girl Before
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Try if you liked Our House by Louise Candlish . . . a very intelligent whodunnit
Best
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Deliberately evocative of classic Golden Age mysteries... the novel is deliciously cynical in tone
Irish Times
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You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this
Yours
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Details
- Author
- Jo Spain
- Narrator
- Michele Moran
- Duration
- 10 hours 54 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 February 2019
- ISBN
- 9781787474291
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Quercus
- Genre
- Thriller / suspense fiction, Psychological thriller, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Crime and mystery: women sleuths / detectives
Synopsis
THE INCREDIBLY GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE*********In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good.There's just one problem.Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they're shocked at the discovery but nobody thought to check on her when she vanished from sight.The police start to ask questions and the seemingly flawless façade begins to crack. Because, when it comes to Olive's neighbours, it seems each of them has something to hide, something to lose and everything to gain from her death.*********PRAISE FOR JO SPAIN'Loved, loved, loved' Caz Frear'Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister' Will Dean'You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this' Yours(P) 2020 Quercus Editions Limited
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