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The Glass House

The Midnight Hour

The enchanting mystery from the author of The Glass House

Black Rabbit Hall

The spellbinding new mystery from the author of Sunday Times bestseller and Richard and Judy pick The Glass House

The Birdcage

The spellbinding mystery from the Richard & Judy bestselling author of The Glass House

The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

The Secret Thread

A clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word

Passionately emotional, dreamily written and dripping with boho glamour

Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master

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Mimi Caswell, style icon and interiors queen, is famously private, her life shrouded in mystery – until she sensationally announces she's quitting Manhattan for London, selling off her legendary estate, and staging a confessional my-life-in-objects auction. 
 
Her new assistant, Jo, carries a secret of her own. As she unpicks Mimi’s glamorous life – and the stories behind each beautiful possession – she begins to expose what Mimi kept hidden: humble beginnings, an estranged sister, a shattering death at a country house party long ago. And a secret thread woven through it all – a far darker version of events that could upend everything. 
 
Will Jo reveal the truth, before the auctioneer’s hammer falls?

Available to pre-order now - the page-turning and spellbinding new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Glass House and Midnight Hour 
 
Even the darkest secrets unravel in time . . . 
 Mimi Mott, celebrated designer and famously private style icon, is auctioning off her legendary estate, intent on telling the true story of her life in objects. 
 In London, her new assistant, Jo O’Mara, is determined to win Mimi’s trust. But Jo carries a secret of her own, and time is running out to unpick the past before the auctioneer’s hammer falls. 
 Who is Mimi, really? A woman who rose from humble beginnings to build an interiors empire – but at what cost? What happened in that remote Wiltshire manor house where Mimi and her family worked during the summer of 1969? Who died the night of the glittering party that stole the headlines? 
 As the auction countdown begins, Jo is drawn into an intoxicating world of obsession, sisters and secrets – and must risk everything to unravel the truth, one thread at a time. 
 
Praise for The Midnight Hour: 
'A clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word' Claire Douglas 
'Passionately emotional, dreamily written and dripping with boho glamour' Daily Mail 
'A book you want to race back to' Lisa Jewell 
'A wonderful twisty novel of family and secrets' Kate Morton 
'Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master' Gillian McAllister 
'Lush, evocative, nostalgic; gripping. A true treat of a book' Sarah Vaughan 
'Impossible to forget' Publishers Weekly, starred review

Mimi Mott, celebrated designer and famously private style icon, is auctioning off her legendary estate, intent on telling the true story of her life in objects. 
 
In London, her new assistant, Jo O’Mara, is determined to win Mimi’s trust. But Jo carries a secret of her own, and time is running out to unpick the past before the auctioneer’s hammer falls. 
 
Who is Mimi, really? A woman who rose from humble beginnings to build an interiors empire – but at what cost? What happened in that remote Wiltshire manor house where Mimi and her family worked during the summer of 1969? Who died the night of the glittering party that stole the headlines? 
 
As the auction countdown begins, Jo is drawn into an intoxicating world of obsession, sisters and secrets – and must risk everything to unravel the truth, one thread at a time.

Eve Chase writes bestselling, page-turning mysteries. Her novels include The Midnight Hour, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and Amazon no.1; The Glass House, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick and Sunday Times bestseller; The Birdcage, The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde and Black Rabbit Hall. A winner of the Saint-Maur en Poche prize in Paris for Best Foreign Fiction and longlisted for the HWA Gold Crown Award, her work has been translated into twenty languages. She lives in Oxford. 
 
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Praise for The Midnight Hour

A clever mystery that kept me gripped. I loved every word

Passionately emotional, dreamily written and dripping with boho glamour

A book you want to race back to

Moody, evocative, with a dream-like quality no other author can master

Impossible to forget

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