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The Girl Before

The gripping global bestseller

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The Girl Before

By: JP Delaney
Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, Lise Aagaard Knudsen
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES

THE ADDICTIVE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR
THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
THE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK

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Enter the world of One Folgate Street and discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price?

Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.

After moving in, she makes a shocking discovery about the previous tenant, Emma, and Jane starts to wonder if her own story will be a rerun of the girl before.

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'DAZZLING' - Lee Child
'ADDICTIVE' - Daily Express
'DEVASTATING' - Daily Mail
'INGENIOUS' - The New York Times
'COMPULSIVE' - Glamour Magazine
'ELEGANT' - Peter James
'SEXY' - Mail on Sunday
'ENTHRALLING' - Woman and Home
'ORIGINAL' - The Times
'RIVETING' - Lisa Gardner
'CREEPY' - Heat
'SATISFYING' - Reader's Digest
'SUPERIOR' - The Bookseller

(P)2017 Random House Audio©2017 JP Delaney Thriller & Suspense Psychological Mystery Suspense Fiction Thriller Crime Thrillers Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime Technothrillers Detective Technology

Critic reviews

This is going to be the buzziest book of 2017 . . . This year The Girl Before will be that book
I was instantly gripped and held captivated by the pace and elegant writing. I devoured it in two straight sittings
A remarkably poised (debut) psychological thriller
Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
The tension is built up subtly, leading to a devastating climax. A really clever thriller . . . [the film] will no doubt become the third big 'Girl' film
Riveting! One of the most compelling page-turners I've read in years. Twisty, turny, and with an ending not to be missed!
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart
Original and entertaining
A deeply addictive literary thriller that deserves to be one of this year's biggest successes
Original and brilliantly written
Get hooked on this hair-raiser about a woman who scores what seems like her dream home . . . until she finds out the mysterious fate of the previous tenant
Creepy . . . The buzz around this could not be fizzier
A compulsive, sexy thriller that's set to soar
The Girl Before is deservedly anointed the 'top girl' of this season's suspense novels
Constantly cranking up the suspense . . . a thoroughly satisfying read
Enthralling
A guaranteed best-seller
The most intriguing plot idea I've seen in a good while
Genuinely eerie . . . beautifully handled . . . the pages fly
Riveting . . . Writing with precision and grace, Delaney strips away the characters' secrets until the raw truth of each is revealed
A guaranteed best-seller
A masterfully crafted spellbinder . . . guaranteed to astonish
Superior psychological suspense . . . a cleverly constructed thriller
The plotting is exceptionally well thought-through
A crisp psychological thriller
The Girl Before is more than worthy of the accolades . . . a complex triangle of twisted obsession . . . say goodbye to your nails
A great thriller and one that instantly hooks you in, in the very first line, and never lets you go . . . utterly compelling and very satisfying . . . A wonderful portrayal of psychological obsession at its creepy best
An outstanding debut that is more than a match for Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train
The Girl Before is a cat-and-mouse game that toys with our expectations and twists our sympathies. At times almost unbearably suspenseful, it keeps us guessing from the first page to the very last. Don't miss it
Ingenious
JP Delaney builds the suspense
One of the best thrillers you'll read in 2017
A fast-paced page-turner
Horribly compelling
A tense psychological thriller, replete with twists and turns
All stars
Most relevant
I was in from the first few sentences. I couldn't put it down. I kept thinking I knew how the story would play out, but I kept being wrong. I highly recommend it, but not for a week long holiday - I finished it in 2 days!!

Loved it loved loved it

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Amazing, surprising at every moment. Finished in 3 days. Just can't stop listening to this.

Amazing, surprising at every moment.

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Fans of the ‘ My Dad Wrote A Porno’ podcast will get the reference, except that this is soft core porn masquerading as an actual “sophisticated” novel. Nothing prepared me for what trash it is. Got about 1/3 of the way but just too cringey for words. Returned.

A lot like Belinda Blinked. But serious.

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