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Also by Alex Marwood:

The Island of Lost Girls, June 2023
Paperback / e-Book
The Poison Garden, January 2020
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The Darkest Secret, September 2016
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The Killer Next Door, November 2014
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The Wicked Girls, July 2013
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The Wicked Girls
Alex Marwood

Viking
July 2013
On Sale: July 30, 2013
Featuring: Kirsty Lindsay; Amber Gordon
ISBN: 0143123866
EAN: 9780143123866
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Thriller

A rundown British seaside amusement park, Funnland, provides the backdrop for the pseudonymous Marwood’s memorable first novel. Thanks to U.K. rehab policies, impoverished Jade Walker and neglected Bel Oldacre—accused, arrested, and sentenced as 11-year-olds for murdering a six-year-old girl in 1986—have become in 2011 Kirsty Lindsay, a newspaper stringer with an out-of-work husband, and Amber Gordon, a big-hearted Funnland cleaner, living with a handsome, enigmatic man given to black moods. Though the law forbids the two to meet, Amber’s discovery of a teenage girl’s body— the third local murder that year—in Innfinnity, the park’s creepy hall of mirrors, and Kirsty’s assignment to get the story behind the killings bring them together again. Marwood fills this disturbing thriller with sordid red herrings and brutal reflections of lower- and middle-class economic hardships, grinding in the sadly familiar message that societal injustice cruelly distorts women’s lives

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