Dirty Little Secrets

a gripping thriller of lies, privilege, secrets and betrayal

De: Jo Spain

Narrado por: Michele Moran

THE INCREDIBLY GRIPPING THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT LIE

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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©2019 Joanne Spain

Reseñas de la Crítica

An engrossing and compelling story that will have you reading well into the night as you keep telling yourself, "just one more chapter"

A fabulously entertaining whodunit, with a sly wit and a wonderful detective duo

Fans of Desperate Housewives will love this . . . a real page-turner

Wonderfully drawn characters and more secrets and motives than you can shake a stick at. Loved, loved, loved

Irish crime fiction's current hot-ticket... busy, imaginative, cleverly structured and zippily-paced

Dark, funny, well-plotted, sinister. Superb

[An] Agatha Christie-esque and emotion-charged locked-estate mystery

[A] sophisticated new crime novel

It's a winning combination of locked room (or in this case locked estate) mystery and incisive social commentary

This is a winner in my book

Spain conjures up a brilliant setting for this murder mystery, with a fantastically imagined cast of characters

She's absolutely hit her stride

A book to sink into with a cast of characters you'll genuinely care about... completely memorable... a gorgeous read

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

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

Loved it! Fabulous characters, superbly written, twists, turns & ends with a punch

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

Has you addicted from the very first page. I found it impossible to put down

Enthralling - Spain dissects her characters' secrets with razor-sharp precision

Try if you liked Our House by Louise Candlish . . . a very intelligent whodunnit

Deliberately evocative of classic Golden Age mysteries... the novel is deliciously cynical in tone

You certainly look at your neighbours with fresh eyes after reading this

Absolutely loved it.

This was one of those books that I both couldn’t wait to finish, and yet didn’t want to end at the same time. The narrator is excellent and does a great job of giving life to the cast of characters that form the gated community in which the story is set. The story is deliciously compelling, everyone has secrets, but were they really motives for murder?

I’ll definitely seek out more of Jo Spain’s novels and more books narrated by Michele Moran too.

DON'T do it

This book was so boring. No twists, no suspense, just a mundane story about a group of boring neighbors. Not even the ending had any interesting quality. I felt like throwing my phone against the wall after I finished it.