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Will you discover the truth in this summer’s most heart-breaking mystery?

What July Knew

If you loved The Watcher, then you will love this unforgettable thriller

If I Die Before I Wake

Keep Him Close

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Keep Him Close was a magnetic, all-consuming read. A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms, however it is expressed.

A moving account of family relationships and mainly low-level but devastating criminality

Keep Him Close isn't just a suspenseful mystery about two women's determination to discover the truth about the night that left one of their sons dead. It's also a really well-written, deeply moving and psychologically affecting study of motherhood and heartbreak. Highly recommended.

Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient

Powerfully written and packs a real emotional punch.

A gripping, dark domestic drama with motherhood at its heart. Beautifully written and emotionally charged, the characters leaped off the page and stayed with me.

A beautiful and heart-breaking story that I can’t stop thinking about. Simply stunning.

Jo Jakeman, author of Safe House on Keep Him Close

This is domestic noir as it's meant to be done; riveting and beautifully written.

Intriguing, heartbreaking and deftly drawn, Keep Him Close is a mystery novel with a beautiful character study at its heart.

Melanie Golding, author of Little Darlings

A beautifully written novel with a cast of richly drawn characters, and a plot that grows ever more menacing as it twists to its powerful, unexpected conclusion.

Keep Him Close is a compelling and deftly plotted read, exploring complex dynamics with sensitivity and empathy.

Emylia Hall, author of The Thousand Lights Hotel

I loved that at the core of the novel's mystery was these mothers' love and belief in their sons...A tense, taut page turner filled to the brim with emotion.

A hugely readable and assured thriller about what could be every parent’s nightmare.

A beautifully moving novel about acceptance and forgiveness.

Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know

I loved this book. Wonderful characterisation and tense plotting. Bravo!

Keenly researched, steeped in real life and dripping with tension, this book is a must-read for any fan of the genre.

Heart-wrenching and page-turning, Keep Him Close delivers and then some.

C.C. MacDonald, author of HAPPY EVER AFTER

This subtle novel is as moving as it is thrilling

A moving and suspenseful mystery that you won’t be able to put down

'A suspenseful mystery... Deeply moving and psychologically affecting' Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient 
 
ONE SON LIED. ONE SON DIED. 
 
Alice's son is dead. Indigo's son is accused of murder. 
 
Indigo is determined to prove her beloved Kane is innocent. She is helped by a kind stranger who takes an interest in her situation. But little does she know that her new friend has her own agenda... 
 
Alice can't tell Indigo who she really is. She wants to understand why her son was killed. But how long will it take for Indigo to discover her identity? And what other secrets will come out as she digs 
 
PRAISE FOR KEEP HIM CLOSE: 
'A tense drama' Sunday Times 
'A beautiful and heart-breaking story that I can't stop thinking about. Simply stunning.' Jo Jakeman, author of Safe House 
'Powerfully written and packs a real emotional punch.' Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home 
'A magnetic, all consuming read. A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms.' 
Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait

Alice keeps her identity secret when she befriends the mother of her son's killer. Keep Him Close is a dark psychological drama about love, hate and forgiveness.

Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author of two novels, If I Die Before I Wake and Keep Him Close. Her books have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, won France's Prix du Bureau des Lecteurs Folio Policier, longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and been selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Waterstones said her second novel 'cements Koch's place as one of the most exciting new crime writers of our day.' She lives in Bristol.

'A SUSPENSEFUL MYSTERY...DEEPLY MOVING AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY AFFECTING' ALEX MICHAELIDES, AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT 
 
PRAISE FOR KEEP HIM CLOSE: 
'A tense drama' Sunday Times 
'A beautiful and heart-breaking story that I can't stop thinking about. Simply stunning.' Jo Jakeman, author of Safe House 
'Powerfully written and packs a real emotional punch.' Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home 
'A magnetic, all consuming read. A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms.' 
Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait 
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ONE SON LIED. ONE SON DIED. 
 
Alice's son is dead. Indigo's son is accused of murder. 
 
Indigo is determined to prove her beloved Kane is innocent. She is helped by a kind stranger who takes an interest in her situation. But little does she know that her new friend has her own agenda... 
 
Alice can't tell Indigo who she really is. She wants to understand why her son was killed. But how long will it take for Indigo to discover her identity? And what other secrets will come out as she digs deeper? 
 
No one knows a son like his mother. But neither Alice nor Indigo know the whole truth about their boys, and what happened between them on that fateful night.

Keep Him Close

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