the Kind Ones: A twisty psychological thriller about revenge, buried secrets, and friend who knows everything you

Everyone on the street calls them the kind ones. Only one of them is telling the truth.Nine months after losing the love of her life, grief-stricken Frankie can't quite believe her luck when warm, magnetic Joss moves into the flat above her. Suddenly there is coffee on the step in the mornings, wine in the evenings, and a friend who fills the silence and asks nothing about the past Frankie has spent sixteen years burying.But Joss knows exactly who Frankie is. She has known for sixteen years. And she has given up her whole life and crossed a country for one purpose: to befriend the woman she believes destroyed her family - and take her apart from the inside, one warm afternoon at a time.As the friendship deepens, both women circle the same buried night, the same locked case, and a child neither of them can stop protecting. Because the truth about what happened by the water is darker - and far more tender - than either of them can bear. And by the time it finally surfaces, the question is no longer who is guilty.It's how far a good woman will go. And whether the kind ones and the dangerous ones were ever really different at all.The Kind Ones is a slow-burn, dual-narrator psychological thriller with a twist that reframes everything - a story about revenge, coercive control, buried secrets, and the terrible things love asks of ordinary people. Perfect for readers who love morally complex women and an ending they'll want to reread the moment they finish.For fans of Lisa Jewell, Alice Feeney, Shari Lapena and Claire Douglas.Reader note: this novel explores domestic abuse and coercive control, bereavement, and references to suicide, always handled with care.