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Strange Sally Diamond

Unravelling Oliver

Lying in Wait

Skin Deep

Our Little Cruelties

The Truth About Ruby Cooper

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Dark, fearless and compelling - in other words, classic Liz Nugent. Utterly distinctive and unique, this is another unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer.

I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!

An absolute belter of a book ... Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best

Absolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks.

What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by.

Only Liz Nugent could have written this book ... an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story

Liz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Ruby Cooper is her most morally complex character yet. Utterly compelling.

An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever

Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist.

Addictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last.

Only Liz Nugent can create characters like these … this is a maestro at work. Another sensational read - clear your diary and prepare to be hooked!

I bloody loved it. Sublime ... dark and hooky.

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If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. 
 
Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode. 
 
Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston. 
 
Not that Ruby wants to think about the past. 
 
But it can’t stay a secret forever.

From the international bestselling author of Strange Sally Diamond 
 
‘I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!’ Freida McFadden 
 
‘What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by’ Graham Norton 
 
‘An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever’ Shari Lapena 
 
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If my sister hadn’t been beautiful, none of it would have happened. 
 
Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode. 
 
Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston. 
 
Not that Ruby wants to think about the past. 
 
But it can’t stay a secret forever. 
 
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‘Absolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks.’ John Marrs 
 
‘Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist.’ Anthony Horowitz 
 
‘Only Liz Nugent can create characters like these … this is a maestro at work. Another sensational read - clear your diary and prepare to be hooked!’ Sam Blake 
 
'Dark, fearless and compelling - unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer.' Jane Casey 
 
‘An absolute belter of a book. Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best.’ Louise Kennedy 
 
'Addictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last.’ Diane Jeffrey 
 
'Unputdownable, acid-sharp, and emotionally brutal — Liz Nugent at her most compulsive.' Dearbhla McTiernan 
 
'Only Liz Nugent could have written this book ... an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story' Sinéad Crowley 
 
‘Liz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Utterly compelling.’ Tammy Cohen 
 
'I bloody loved it. Sublime ... dark and hooky.' Louise Swanson

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her five novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond - have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.

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Dark, fearless and compelling - in other words, classic Liz Nugent. Utterly distinctive and unique, this is another unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer.

I couldn't stop reading! Absolutely a triumph!

An absolute belter of a book ... Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best

Absolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks.

What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by.

Only Liz Nugent could have written this book ... an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story

Liz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Ruby Cooper is her most morally complex character yet. Utterly compelling.

An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever

Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist.

Addictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last.

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