The gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Sophie Hannah, the Queen of the unguessable mystery! What if the only way you could prevent a murder was by confessing to it? Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder. Jemma Stelling is the police''s lead suspect. Jemma Stelling couldn''t have committed the crime. Jemma had an alibi. At the time of Marianne Cass''s brutal murder, she was in the police station, confessing to a murderous obsession with Marianne. Is Jemma Stelling innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded killer? Can you be guilty of the opposite of murder? PRAISE FOR SOPHIE HANNAH: ''A new novel by Sophie Hannah is a cause for celebration!'' ALEX MICHAELIDES, author of THE SILENT PATIENT ''One of the best crime writers currently working'' THE SCOTSMAN ''High concept and so satisfying'' GILLIAN MCALLISTER, author of WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME ''Brain-bending'' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

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The gripping new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Sophie Hannah, the Queen of the unguessable mystery!

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Sophie Hannah is a Sunday Times, New York Times and Amazon Kindle No. 1 bestselling author whose books have sold millions of copies and are published in 51 countries. She was the first person to write and publish new Hercule Poirot mysteries, at the request of Agatha Christie's family and estate. In 2023 she won the Dagger in the Library Award, and in 2013 she won the UK National Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year prize for her novel The Carrier. Sophie is also an award-winning poet whose work is studied at GCSE level across the UK, and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her murder mystery musical, The Mystery of Mr E, was released as a feature film in 2023. Sophie is the founder and coach at Dream Author Coaching, and her recent self-help book about how to make brilliant decisions, The Double Best Method, was an Amazon top ten bestseller. Sophie lives with her husband, grown-up children and dog in Cambridge, where she is an honorary fellow of Lucy Cavendish College.

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Sophie Hannah's jaw-dropping, twisty, unguessable new thriller has readers hooked!
'This murder mystery really did blow my mind. It kept me awake at night! Absolutely brilliant'
'Sophie Hannah at her twisty, absorbing, brilliant best'
'INGENIOUS! I challenge anyone to unravel this clever whodunit'
'Sophie Hannah could well be our modern Christie, such a deliciously complicated plot. Her best yet!!'
'This lived up to its press for me. I loved every page - a truly impossible puzzle!!'

What if the only way to prevent a murder is by confessing to it?

Jemma Stelling has confessed to a murder - one she can't have committed. She has an unshakeable alibi: when Marianne Upton was stabbed to death outside her home, Jemma was at the police station confessing to a murderous obsession with Marianne and a plan to kill her in precisely the way she was killed.

So is Jemma innocent? Or is she an ingenious, cold-blooded murderer?

**PRAISE FOR SOPHIE HANNAH:
**'Such a clever, twisty book - I loved it!' HARRIET TYCE
'A new novel by Sophie Hannah is a cause for celebration!' ALEX MICHAELIDES
'One of the best crime writers currently working' SCOTSMAN
'High concept and so satisfying' GILLIAN McALLISTER
'Brain-bending' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING