THE BOOK CLUB

The book club was her idea, of course. It was her way into our group. A chance to get close. I knew from the day she arrived that she couldn't be trusted. And I was right. Alice didn't come to the village for peace and quiet.

She came for revenge.

"I raced through it - edgy, tense" ~ Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange

"I for one am terrified of the woman next door!" ~ Louise Candlish, author of The Other Passenger

"Tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping" ~ Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't They Grown

"Dark, twisty, claustrophobic" ~ Jo Spain, author of The Confession

"I loved this book - tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping and likely to make you want to avoid book groups for the foreseeable future!" ~ Sophie Hannah

"I raced through it - edgy, tense and wry with great foreshadowing. No one has ever asked me to join a book club - now I think it's for the best!" ~ Harriet Tyce

C. J. Cooper grew up in a small village in south Wales before moving to London as a student. She graduated with a degree in Ancient History and Egyptology and spent seven months as a development worker in Nepal. On her return to Britain she joined the civil service, where she worked for 17 years on topics ranging from housing support to flooding. She later discovered that she much preferred writing about psychotic killers to ministerial speeches.