The Garden Party, page 21
Harris nods.
‘Good,’ she says, beaming. ‘I’ll see myself out. I’m sure you have a lot to think about.’
Indeed he did, Harris thought as Lauren closed the door quietly. He watched as she walked across the lawn back to the main house. Indeed he did.
Acknowledgments
I’d like to say a huge thanks to all the readers who have picked up my books and taken the time to recommend them to friends, leave reviews online and post about them on social media. I’ll always be extremely grateful.
Special thanks to my family: Leno, for continued kindness and encouragement throughout the writing process, my parents, sisters Molly and Amy, granny and uncle, and to Rebecca and Tom and all my close friends.
I would like to thank my wonderful agent Joanna Swainson and everyone at Hardman & Swainson for being such a brilliant team. Huge thanks to my editor Jennie Rothwell and to Kimberley Young, Charlotte Ledger, Bonnie Macleod, Emma Petfield, Lucy Bennett, Arsalan Isa, Chloe Cummings and everyone at One More Chapter and HarperCollins. I’m overjoyed to be part of an amazing publisher family. Thanks to Lizzy Barber, Fiona Cummins, Simon Masters, Lauren North, Marion Todd and Michael Wood for all the wonderful WhatsApp chats during our writing days, along with joyful lunch trips! Massive thanks to the authors who so generously read early proofs of this book (with a really tight turnaround!) and offered such kind words.
Last but not least, a big thank you to all the booksellers who have been so brilliant at getting my novels into the hands of readers.
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He stands sometimes at the window. Hidden in the corner of my eye.
I know he’s there. I know he’s watching.
Now my son is dead. My neighbour is not.
And I’m going to find out why.
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Four people walked into the dining room that night. One would never leave.
Matthew: the perfect husband.
Titus: the perfect son.
Charlie: the perfect illusion.
Rachel: the perfect stranger.
Charlie didn’t want her at the book club. Matthew wouldn’t listen.
And that’s how Charlie finds himself slumped beside his husband’s body, their son sitting silently at the dinner table, while Rachel calls 999, the bloody knife still gripped in her hand.
Classic crime meets Donna Tartt in this nerve-shredding domestic noir thriller that weaves a sprawling web of secrets around an opulent West London world and the dinner that ends in death.
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Set between Essex, Kent, and Australia, The Woman on the Pier is a dark suspense thriller brimming with secrets and lies seeping across three generations – a must-read for fans of Lucy Foley and Rosamund Lupton.
Two strangers meet on the pier
Only one walks away…
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When Caroline discovers the messages Jessica had been sending a boy named Michael, she realises it’s because of him. Because he failed to meet her that day.
He’s the reason why her daughter is dead.
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That is her promise. Her price.
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A Version of the Truth is an addictive and twisty thriller following two women separated by three decades and a devastating secret that has been simmering beneath the surface ever since. Now it’s time to discover the truth…
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Hold Your Breath is a nail-biting thriller delving into the secret-strewn past of a woman who’s always known her family isn’t like any other, ensconced in their remote cottage in the woods. But when the police revisit a suspicious death, she must examine her most painful memories – and this time, there’s nowhere to hide…
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About the Author
B P Walter was born and raised in Essex. After spending his childhood and teenage years reading compulsively, he worked in bookshops then went to the University of Southampton to study Film and English followed by an MA in Film & Cultural Management. He is an alumnus of the Faber Academy and formerly worked in social media coordination for Waterstones in London.
Also by B P Walter
A Version of the Truth
Hold Your Breath
The Dinner Guest
The Woman on the Pier
The Locked Attic
Notes on a Murder
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