How could something as innocent as a smile lead to murder?

When Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the relationship and throws him out of her flat. Getting Brendan out of her life, however, is not so easy.

Two weeks later her sister Kerry calls in ecstacy. She is in love. She has a new boyfriend. He is called Brendan...

So Brendan is back in Miranda’s life - with a vengeance. But why has he done this? And what does he want from her?

What began as an embarrassment soon becomes an infestation - and more frightening than her worst nightmares.

Secret Smile, a story of love, obsession and revenge, is surely Nicci French’s most chilling novel yet.

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