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A Lucky Escape

She doesn’t want to upset Rebecca.
She’s already killed her husband, after all
.

**FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING WRITER OF THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN**
**THE BRAND NEW ADDICTIVE THRILLER YOU WON'T WANT TO PUT DOWN**


On an ordinary day, Sam cycles to work and kills a man. A step into the road. A second too soon. That’s all it takes. By nightfall, Alfie is dead, his wife widowed - and Sam is facing the rest of her life as an accidental killer.

When Sam and her sister Maggie search Alfie’s rucksack, they find a lunch box containing a few mushrooms, and think little of it. But what if Alfie wasn’t innocent? What if, before he stepped into Sam’s path, he was on his way to do something unforgivable?

While Sam tries to move on from becoming a killer, she has no idea that her sister is moving in a different direction entirely. That she is hiding something dangerous.

Something that could very easily turn one death into two.


**'Paula Hawkins is a genius'**
LISA JEWELL, bestselling author of Don't Let Him In


© Paula Hawkins 2027 (P) Penguin Audio 2027

About Paula Hawkins

PAULA HAWKINS worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller The Girl on the Train became a global phenomenon, selling over 23 million copies. Published in over fifty languages, it was a No.1 bestseller around the world and a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt.

Paula's subsequent thrillers have all been instant Sunday Times bestsellers. A Slow Fire Burning was nominated for Thriller of the Year at the British Book Awards, and The Blue Hour was longlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year and voted the Good Housekeeping Good Books winner.
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