Can You Keep a Secret?

Jan 21, 2025 8:58 AM

Author:Karen Perry,Grainne Gillis

Penguin presents the audio download edition of Can You Keep a Secret by Karen Perry, read by Grainne Gillis.

It's been twenty years since Lindsey has seen her best friend Rachel

Twenty years since she has set foot in Thornbury Hall - the now crumbling home of the Bagenal family - where they spent so much time as teenagers. Since Patrick Bagenal's 18th birthday party, the night everything changed.

It's time for a reunion

Patrick has decided on one last hurrah before closing the doors of his family home for good. All of the old crowd, back together for a weekend.

For the secrets to come out

It's not long before secrets begin to float to the surface. Everything that Lindsey shared with her best friend at sixteen and everything that she didn't.

But some secrets should never be told. They need to be taken to the grave. While others require revenge at any cost.

Reviews

Dramatic, when a group of friends reunite in a spooky Irish stately home, the secrets soon come tumbling out

—— The Sunday Times Crime Club

Elegantly written and beautifully paced, Can You Keep A Secret? is a fluent, subtle and chilling novel

—— Declan Hughes , The Irish Times

A Top Ten Crime Read for Autumn

—— Red

An engaging thriller

—— Choice Magazine

Praise for Karen Perry

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The book is beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations

—— Best Crime Fiction of 2015, The Telegraph on The Boy That Never Was

Like Gone Girl . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages

—— Evening Standard

A truly remarkable novel ...Written in a captivating, lyrical style and brilliantly structured, the story grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go

—— Jeffery Deaver

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

—— Sunday Mirror

Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page

—— The Irish Independent

Gripping, powerfully compelling debut

—— Daily Express

Waits’ first fictional outing is a shadowy, disturbing narrative and once you start reading it’s hard to resist the call. Sirens is the best British crime debut of the last five years.

—— Crimescene Magazine

A fierce, assured and utterly compelling debut . . . A Ross MacDonald for the 21st century.

—— Stav Sherez

Great read. A powerful piece of Manchester noir, brutal, poignant and dark as tar.

—— Cath Staincliffe

Fresh and darkly stylish, Sirens is a striking debut that marks the arrival of a major new crime writing talent.

—— Chris Ewan

Sirens immediately feels like a classic, not a debut . . . a book for every crime fan.

—— Julia Heaberlin, author of Black Eyed Susans

An amazing thriller. Sexy, stylish suspense.

—— A. A. Dhand

A dark, dangerous noir, Sirens will be one of 2017’s smash hit debuts.

—— Nick Quantrill

A down and dirty slice of Manchester noir . . . Impressively bleak.

—— Shots Magazine

Page-turner is the only word for it.

—— Press Association

Brooding, blistering. Sirens is a remarkable literary thriller, perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and James Lee Burke

—— A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

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