The other people: you can trust yourself, but anyone else?

And Then There Were None meets Shutter Island in this high-concept thriller set in a mysterious country house where a group of strangers are in a race against the clock to find a serial killer's next victim and their own connections to each other. Pre-order The Last Chapter, a beguiling thriller about writing and writers where C. B. Everett himself is under suspicion. Coming Spring 2026. ‘Hellishly good fun’ THE TIMES‘A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore’ JOHN CONNOLLYAnd Then There Were None meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.Ten strangers.An old dark house.A killer picking them off one by one.And a missing girl who's running out of time…Ten strangers wake up inside an old, locked house. They have no recollection of how they got there.In order to escape, they have to solve the disappearance of a young woman.But a killer also stalks the halls of the house, and soon the body count starts to rise.Who are these strangers? Why were they chosen? Why would someone want to kill them?And who – or what – is the Beast in the Cellar?Forget what you think you know.Because while you can trust yourself, can you really trust THE OTHER PEOPLE?‘The Other People chilled me to the bone, made me laugh out loud – and everything in between. This devilishly clever mystery holds you captive from its explosive opening, right up to its shocking final pages. I never saw the twist coming, yet it made perfect sense. Brilliant!’ ALISON GAYLIN, bestselling author of We Are Watching

Pagina's: 400, Paperback, Simon + Schuster UK