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The Truth About Ruby Cooper
- Author
- Liz Nugent
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 12 March 2026
- Run Time
- 10 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (2 reviews)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
*THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*
The deliciously dark new suspense novel from the international bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond
If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.
Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.
Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.
Not that Ruby wants to think about the past.
But it can’t stay a secret forever.
‘I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!’ Freida McFadden
‘What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by’ Graham Norton
‘An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever’ Shari Lapena
© Liz Nugent 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
Critics Review
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Dark, fearless and compelling - in other words, classic Liz Nugent. Utterly distinctive and unique, this is another unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer.
Jane Casey
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I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!
Frieda McFadden
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An absolute belter of a book ... Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best
Louise Kennedy
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Absolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks.
John Marrs
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What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by.
Graham Norton
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Only Liz Nugent could have written this book ... an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story
Sinéad Crowley
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Liz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Ruby Cooper is her most morally complex character yet. Utterly compelling.
Tammy Cohen
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An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever
Shari Lapena
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Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist.
Anthony Horowitz
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Addictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last.
Diane Jeffrey
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 4.0
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4.0 4.0
Another corker from Liz Nugent!
Took me a while to get used to the style of narration, which feels a bit flat (especially Ruby) but I think it's supposed to be like that. Overall really well plotted and written like all her novels, this was a very compelling story and had me captivated.Cassbergers 2026-04-27
Details
- Author
- Liz Nugent
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 10 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 12 March 2026
- ISBN
- 9780241993569
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Psychological thriller, Crime and / or mystery fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(2 reviews)
- Narration
- 4.0(2 reviews)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.*THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER*The deliciously dark new suspense novel from the international bestselling author of Strange Sally DiamondIf my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened.Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.Not that Ruby wants to think about the past.But it can’t stay a secret forever.‘I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!’ Freida McFadden‘What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by’ Graham Norton‘An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever’ Shari Lapena© Liz Nugent 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026
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