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What She Left

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If you liked The Girl on the Train then I think you'll like this just as much, if not more

What She Left is an extraordinary and bold creation

Every month brings another book billed the new Gone Girl, but we think we've found a winner

A deliciously modern take on the psychological thriller ... a shifting, mesmerising, mysterious story ... very well-written and intelligently realised, occupying a territory half way between literary novel and thriller ... a memorable debut

An absorbing, intricate and extremely original novel. It is also immensely clever and intriguing. It kept making me recall how I'd felt watching Twin Peaks. The kind of immediate shock and grief I felt for Laura Palmer was what I felt for Alice. The process of piecing together the heroine's life is so absorbing. I mourned her more and more powerfully as the story went on. What She Left is beautifully written and very emotionally involving. I hope that it garners all of the commercial and critical success it deserves

There are a million psychological thrillers out there right now, but this one stands out . . . Richmond keeps you guessing until the final pages in this compelling debut

A tight, clever, compelling story ... the reader must act as detective, rebuilding Alice Salmon from the digital footprint she leaves behind

Paula Daly, author of Just What Kind of Mother Are You

A clever, imaginative and entertaining attempt to immerse the whodunit in the world of social media

An ingeniously original premise ... addictive

What a wonderful new voice.  What  a pleasure to read a thriller that's so ambitious and so full of emotion and suspense. Bravo!

Nicci French, author of The Memory Game and Blue Monday

Intriguing and successful ... a crime thriller from a different angle, Richmond's accomplished debut encourages the reader to become the sleuth ... Genuinely chilling

Likely to be one of 2015's most haunting and unforgettable debuts. Accident, murder or suicide? ...  A shocking story of love, loss and obsession where everyone has something to hide.  It is a great read

Brilliant, totally original, "can't-put-down-able"

Judith O'Reilly, author of Wife in the North

A classic whodunnit, given a modern twist

An exceptional book ... a forensic jigsaw, an ingenious puzzle ... and a most promising debut

Highly original, fascinating and completely compelling. I was hooked on Alice's story from the very first page.   A novel guaranteed to make you look back and question your social media footprint, and how accurately it tells your own story

Taut, multi-layered . . . A disturbing, intelligently written novel that's a psychological thriller and crime novel all rolled into one . . . Richmond shatters every assumption with a series of brilliantly delivered curve balls . . . some critics are already comparing it to Gone Girl. They're not wrong . . . the writing is strong, the narrative pace never slackens, while the climax is absolutely blistering

Intriguing ... presents enough believable suspects and motives to keep the reader gripped

This is how books should be written; full of trust and respect for the reader, allowing you to follow the darker paths and investigate yourself.  This is a book of immense accomplishment, thrilling and clever - I absolutely devoured it, and I am left thinking simply that none of us are quite what we seem

Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner and Human Remains

What She Left leads the reader down a dark and twisty path of suspense and intrigue. This gripping and stylishly written novel left me chilled to the bone and captivated me from beginning to end

Heather Gudenkauf, author of The Weight of Silence

WHAT SHE LEFT is bold and inventive storytelling. The reader becomes the investigator, sorting through diary entries, letters, tweets, and emails to discover the truth beneath the tales of an entire cast of potentially unreliable narrators. This is not only a clever thriller, but an insightful exploration of identity and the personae we create in the social-media era

Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author of The Ex

If you love CLOSE TO HOME and FRIEND REQUEST then you'll love this

When Alice Salmon died last year, the ripples were felt in the news, on the internet, and in the hearts of those who knew her best. 
 
But the person who knows her most intimately isn't family or a friend. Professor Jeremy Cooke is an academic whose life has become about piecing together Alice's existence in all its flawed and truthful reality. 
 
For Cooke, faithfully recreating Alice's life - through her diaries, emails and anything using her voice - is all-consuming. He does not know how deep his search will take him, or the shocking nature of what he will uncover.

'The new Gone Girl' Marie Claire 
'If you liked The Girl on the Train then I think you'll like this just as much, if not more' Scott Pack 
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Alice Salmon 
 young, smart, ambitious - 
with her whole life ahead of her. 
 Until the night she mysteriously drowns. 
 
 Nobody knows how or why. 
 
 But Alice left a few clues: 
 her diary, texts, emails, and presence on social media 
 
 Alice is gone but fragments of the life she led remain - and in them might lie the answer to what really happened to her - if only someone can piece it all together before it vanishes for ever . . . 
 
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 Praise for What She Left: 
 
'Mesmerising' Daily Telegraph 
 'Addictive' Sunday Express 
 'Extraordinary' Guardian 
 'Clever and Imaginative' The Times 
 'Strikingly modern' Sunday Times

T. R. Richmond is an award-winning journalist who's written for local, regional and national newspapers, magazines and websites.

What She Left

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