A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies on her trail. Anna McLean loves to revel in lifes unsavory details. When shes keeping up appearances as an upper-class Edinburgh housewife, theres no better escape than other peoples sordid stories retold in true-crime podcasts. Until the day it all falls apart. A new podcast turns out to have a connection to Annas own dark past--the secret history shes taken great pains to conceal. Hours later, her husband announces hes leaving her--for her own best friend. And when the best friends husband--who happens to be former rock star Fin Cohen--shows up on Annas front stoop, a nosy neighbor plasters their photo all over the internet. Her cover well and truly blown, Annas only choice is to run--and take Fin along for his own protection.Reigning queen of Scottish crime fiction Denise Mina deftly weaves the classic thriller elements of a woman with a secret past, an average citizen thrust into a high-stakes international chase, and a cheating spouse, with online life--internet sleuthing, true-crime podcasts, insta-celebrities, and Twitter--to craft a modern, propulsive page-turner like nothing youve read before. A Library Journal Editors Pick for Spring.
A breathtaking thriller about a wealthy housewife who successfully conceals her dark past until a true-crime podcast and a photo posted on social media send her running across Europe, with a faded rock star by her side and extremely dangerous enemies on her trail. Anna McLean loves to revel in lifes unsavory details. When shes keeping up appearances as an upper-class Edinburgh housewife, theres no better escape than other peoples sordid stories retold in true-crime podcasts. Until the day it all falls apart. A new podcast turns out to have a connection to Annas own dark past--the secret history shes taken great pains to conceal. Hours later, her husband announces hes leaving her--for her own best friend. And when the best friends husband--who happens to be former rock star Fin Cohen--shows up on Annas front stoop, a nosy neighbor plasters their photo all over the internet. Her cover well and truly blown, Annas only choice is to run--and take Fin along for his own protection.Reigning queen of Scottish crime fiction Denise Mina deftly weaves the classic thriller elements of a woman with a secret past, an average citizen thrust into a high-stakes international chase, and a cheating spouse, with online life--internet sleuthing, true-crime podcasts, insta-celebrities, and Twitter--to craft a modern, propulsive page-turner like nothing youve read before. A Library Journal Editors Pick for Spring.