The Wicked Girls (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143123866)

"The suspense keeps the pages flying, but what sets this one apart is the palpable sense of onrushing doom." --Stephen King, "The Best Books I Read This Year"

The Edgar Award-winning psychological thriller that asks the question: how well can you truly know anyone?

On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago. Now with new, vastly different lives--and unknowing families to protect--will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?

Gripping and fast-paced, with an ending that will stay with you long after you've read it, The Wicked Girls takes you to a thrillingly dark place you've never been before. For fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Tana French.

"The Wicked Girls is ingenious and original. Real, chilling, true to its world and its characters. In short, a knock-out." --Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of And When She Was Good and What the Dead Know

Author: Alex Marwood
ISBN-10: 0143123866
ISBN-13: 9780143123866
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2013
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.57w x 0.81d
Award: Thriller Awards - Nominee
Award: Anthony Awards - Nominee
Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Winner
Award: Macavity Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2013
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2013 pg. 19
Library Journal 07/01/2013 pg. 73
New York Times Book Review 08/25/2013 pg. 31
Entertainment Weekly 12/27/2013 pg. 100

About the Author

Alex Marwood is the pseudonym of a journalist who has worked extensively across the British press. Her first novel, The Wicked Girls, won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and the Anthony and ITW Awards for Best Paperback Original. The Killer Next Door, her second novel, won a Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, was nominated for the Anthony and Barry, and has been optioned for film by James Franco and Ahna O'Reilly. Her third novel, The Darkest Secret, was published in 2016. Marwood lives in south London.