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To Die For
Oct 27, 2024 6:19 AM

Author:Alice Clark-Platts,Rachel Bavidge

To Die For

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of To Die For by Alice Clark-Platts, read by Rachel Bavidge.

In an empty car park, Ryan James sits in his car contemplating death. He has set up a hose pipe that is pouring carbon monoxide into the car, and his deciding whether or not to close the last window and end it all. Finally, he gets a text and decides to end his life.

Detective Inspector Martin is called to the scene the next. At first she is convinced it is a simple suicide but as she looks deeper into the boy's life and his relationships she begins to wonder if someone else was involved.

Reviews

An exceptional book by and exceptional writer. Gaylin is an expert at acute emotional observation combined with seamless plotting. I adored this book.

—— Alex Marwood

Prepare to be blown away by this powerfully suspenseful and richly atmospheric novel

—— Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Sister

What Remains of Me is a riveting, emotionally complex thriller, filled with characters who jump from the page and grab your heart until you reach the final, stunning twist. This is Alison Gaylin in top form

—— Alafair Burke

A strong, well thought out plot … a whole boxful of secrets and a heap of red herrings.

—— Cleopatra Loves Books

A superbly constructed thriller…intoxicating

—— Irish Times

A highly recommended thriller, that reaches an unexpected and thought-provoking climax, written with verve and intrigue.

—— Shots, Crime and Thriller Ezine

Taut, fast-paced, truly excellent

—— Sun

One of the best new series detectives . . . Mesmerizing!

—— Lisa Gardner

M. J. Arlidge has created a genuinely fresh heroine in DI Helen Grace

—— Daily Mail

Chilling stuff

—— Fabulist

A chilling read

—— My Weekly

A grisly, gripping thriller

—— Sunday Mirror

Gruesomely realistic, intriguing and relentless. Arlidge's fledgling army of fans is about to grow

—— Sunday Sport

Expertly pulled off. It has a devious premise. DI Helen Grace is fiendishly awesome. It's scary as all hell. And it has a full cast of realistically drawn, interesting characters that make the thing read like a bullet

—— Will Lavender

Compulsive reading

—— Marie Claire

a novel that grabbed me from the start and didn't let go

—— Woman & Home

this year's most highly anticipated psychological thriller

—— Sunday Times

addictive

—— Observer

If you like your books twisty and your narrators unreliable and flawed, this is for you

—— Cosmopolitan

Wow, now I know why it has caused such a stir. Taut, tight, utterly compulsive. Once you embark you won't want to get off until the very last stop

—— Tammy Cohen

Artfully crafted and utterly riveting. The Girl on the Train's clever structure and expert pacing will keep you perched on the edge of your seat, but it's Hawkins' deft, empathetic characterization that will leave you pondering this harrowing, thought-provoking story about the power of memory and the danger of envy.

—— Kimberly McCreight, New York Times-bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia

Damn you #girlonthetrain . . . you unputdownable, you. So twisty, compassionate and gritty. Loved it. Deserves to be massive

—— Tweet from Julia Crouch

Going to be THE book of 2015. Sexy, smart & v intricately plotted

—— Tweet from Eva Dolan

Brilliant, fast-moving, very clever. Add to your January wish-list now!

—— Tweet from Mark Edwards

Be ready to be spell-bound . . . It's the kind of book you'll want to press into the hands of everyone you know, after you've turned the last page, just so they can share your obsession and you can relive it

—— Laura Kasischke, author of The Raising

Compulsively readable…. It actually hurt to put it down

—— JOY FIELDING, New York Times bestselling author of Now You See Her

I'm calling it now: The Girl on the Train is the next Gone Girl. Paula Hawkins' highly anticipated debut novel is a dark, gripping thriller with the shock ending you crave in a noir-ish mystery

—— Bustle

A gripping, down-the-rabbit-hole thriller

—— Entertainment Weekly (US)

Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller . . . Hawkins' debut ends with a twist that no one - least of all its victims - have seen coming

—— People Magazine (US)

[Paula Hawkins] pulls off a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming

—— Entertainment Weekly (US)

distinctive, intelligent and unpredictable

—— The Times

perfectly paced, from its arresting beginning to its twist ending; it's not an easy book to put down . . . what really makes The Girl on the Train such a gripping novel is Hawkins' remarkable understanding of the limits of human knowledge, and the degree to whcih memory and imagination can become confused

—— NPR.org

A complex and increasingly chilling tale courtesy of a number of first-person narratives that will wrong-foot even the most experienced of crime fiction readers

—— Irish Times

The Girl on the Train marries movie noir with novelistic trickery . . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend

—— USA Today

achieves a sinister poetry . . . Hawkins keeps the nastiest twist for last

—— Financial Times

[L]ike Gone Girl, Hawkins' book is a highly addictive novel about a lonely divorcee who gets caught up in the disappearance of a woman whom she had been surreptitiously watching. And beyond the Gone Girl comaparisons, this book has legs of its own

—— GQ.com

Hawkins' masterful deployment of unwittingly unreliable narration to evoke the aftershocks of abuse and trauma is a powerful way of exploring women's marginalization

—— Huffington Post

Springs new surprises on us . . .Pulses will be quickened

—— The Good Book Guide

The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl

—— New York Times

Halfway through and I can't stop reading it. My kinda thriller!

—— Tweet from Armistead Maupin

it's BLIDDY FABLISS, isn't it! A long long time since a book gripped me like this

—— Tweet from Marian Keyes

The Girl on the Train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, that's two return journeys on a typical train trip! There's a whiff of Agatha Christie and a dollop of Gone Girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost in. Pick it up, solve the crime and pass it on . . .

—— Ryan Tubridy

Agatha Christie meets Rear Window...a taut psychological thriller that's chockful of chilling twists.

—— Mail on Sunday, Events Magazine

Clever, exciting and full of twists, this is undoubtedly the cream of this year's crop

—— Daily Mail

Unputdownable . . . the new literary sensation . . . nothing short of sensational

—— Daily Mail

...this unusual clammy-palmed thriller.

—— THE TIMES

Hawkins juggles perspectives and timescales with great skill, and considerable suspense builds up along with empathy for an unusual central character.

—— GUARDIAN
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