All the Wicked Games

Oct 9, 2024 10:25 PM

Author:Lauren North,Sally Oliver

Brought to you by Penguin.

If your best friend was in danger, you'd try to save her...wouldn't you?

Are you ready to play?

Best friends Cleo and Rachel spend their evenings pretending to be people they're not, inventing elaborate stories to escape the monotony of their real lives. It's all harmless fun - until they play the game on the wrong person...

It's your move now.

Five years later, Cleo is still struggling to come to terms with the night that destroyed her friendship with Rachel and almost cost them their lives. And then she receives a text: Rachel is missing. Have you seen her?

There's only one person to blame.

Wracked with guilt for failing Rachel the last time they were in danger, Cleo races to find her friend. But could the past be repeating itself? Only this time, they're caught up in a far darker game.

The rules don't matter when the goal is revenge.

'A wonderfully dark, addictive, intriguing and twisty read' Karen Hamilton, author of The Perfect Girlfriend

'Lauren North really knows how to reel you in' Lesley Kara, bestselling author of The Rumour

'A deliciously gripping thriller; the twists blew my mind!' Emma Curtis, author of Invite Me In

Reviews

Edge-of-your-seat suspense... Utterly gripping

—— Emma Curtis, author of INVITE ME IN

Dark and addictive, twisty and twisted...phenomenal!

—— Andrea Mara, author of ALL HER FAULT

A stomach-lurching dive into friendship, longing and betrayal, with pitch-perfect pacing, cracking suspense and twists that keep on twisting!

—— Philippa East, author of LITTLE WHITE LIES

As twisty as hell with a plot that accelerates at 120mph. Highlighting the danger of not knowing who you are really talking to behind a screen on social media . . . simply brilliant!

—— Nikki Smith, author of LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO

Dark, gritty...A really great thriller and really original concept.

—— Holly Craig, author of THE SHALLOWS

Intriguing and creepy in all the right ways with great characters. Loved it!

—— Leona Deakin, author of GONE

As dark and twisty as a country road after midnight.

—— Trevor Wood, author of THE MAN ON THE STREET

This action-packed thriller offers a chilling glimpse into the dark world of internet chat rooms. Tense, twisty and terrifying!

—— Allie Reynolds, author SHIVER

All The Wicked Games is a masterclass in suspense - the twisting plot and shocking reveals had me on the edge of my seat from the first page to the last.

—— Lisa Hall, author of THE WOMAN IN THE WOODS

Twisty, dark and dripping with gut-lurching suspense, All The Wicked Games will grab your attention and refuse to let go until the very last page.

—— Becca Day, author of THE GIRL BEYOND THE GATES

Tense, sinister and suspenseful.

—— Karen Hamilton, author of THE PERFECT GIRLFRIEND

Thrillingly intense, we devoured this in one sitting

—— Heat

"The latest from Andrea Mara chilled me to my core. An outrageous amount of twists and turns, you will love it!"

—— Sarah Breen

A fabulous book. Brilliantly plotted, heart-wrenchingly emotional, and with a central premise to die for. This delivered by the armful. I loved it!

—— GYTHA LODGE

Praise for Claire Douglas

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Spine chilling

—— The Sunday Times

Claire is a mistress at weaving the reader into a web of domestic deceit

—— Jane Corry

Twisty, exciting yet so very real

—— Gillian McAllister

Jonasson is a master at two aspects of Icelandic noir: one is the description of his country's withering weather; the other is the handling of murderous plots that are tangled beyond all expectations. He's in top form in both specialties this time out

—— Toronto Star

Jonasson is a master at exploring the impact of claustrophobia brought on by darkness and enclosed spaces. He an avid fan of Agatha Christie, and Outside is an adaptation, with an Icelandic twist, of the classic locked-door mystery

—— Canberra Times

It takes a truly talented writer to work with a thin outline like that and turn it into a classic, and that is exactly what Jónasson has done here. I believe he has penned the Icelandic version of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs

—— Book Reporter

From the winner of THE BEST CRIME NOVEL IN THE LAST 50 YEARS

—— Le Point

Praise for Ragnar Jónasson

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Jónasson is an automatic must-read for me . . . possibly the best Scandi writer working today

—— Lee Child

Triumphant . . . Chilling, creepy, perceptive, almost unbearably tense

—— Ian Rankin , -

Dark, chilling and utterly gripping

—— Shari Lapena , -

Such a tense, gripping read

—— Anthony Horowitz , -

A world-class crime writer. One of the most astonishing plots of modern crime fiction.

—— The Sunday Times

A master of the Icelandic thriller.

—— New York Post

Is this the best crime writer in the world today? . . . He's truly a master of his genre

—— The Times Online

Invigorating Iceland-set slice of Nordic Noir

—— Daily Mail

Fiendishy clever

—— Financial Times

Triumphant conclusion to the trilogy. Only Ragnar Jónasson has rendered hindsight so heartbreaking

—— Sunday Times (on the Hidden Iceland trilogy)

It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction

—— The Times

The red hot crime writer from the frozen north . . . One of the most important voices on the international crime scene

—— The Times

Ragnar Jonasson has a gift for crafting clever whodunnits while conveying the intimidating beauty of his native Iceland

—— Vogue Scandinavia

Jónasson has the full measure of the Nordic noir genre, and pushes all the buttons

—— Financial Times

Expertly Plotted

—— Guardian

I loved Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris, which achieves the astonishing feat of taking 17th-century events and people and telling their stories in 21st-century language without a single seam showing

—— Ben Macintyre , The Times

Thrilling

—— Gregory Doran , The Times

This is a novel that asks big historical questions. You could read it as a pure thriller, and it is one of Harris's most compellingly paced to date. You could read it as a piece of intelligent historical immersion. I think it is more; I think it is his best novel since Fatherland.

—— Sunday Times

It's a belter.

—— The Times

If only all historical thrillers could be this entertaining.

—— Observer

In this tense and beautifully written account of the ensuing manhunt, Harris brings sympathy to characters on either side of the civil war that divided a nation.

—— Daily Mail

A brainy, compulsive page-turner.

—— Daily Telegraph

A violent, gripping, globetrotting chase thriller

—— Daily Mirror

He’s my go-to person that I know will keep me entertained

—— Jane Garvey

[A] rich, propulsive novel

—— Sunday Times

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