Product Description
Skin Deep
Author: Liz Nugent
Format: Paperback
'Pure genius. Absolutely brilliant' — Shari Lapena
'A twisted thriller, reminiscent of Patricia Highsmith' — Ian Rankin
IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year Winner 2018
WINNER of the Dead Good Books Award for the Book That You Can't Put Down!
She's not who you think she is . . .
'I could probably have been an actress.
It is not difficult to pretend to be somebody else.
Isn't that what I've been doing for most of my life?'
Cordelia Russell has been living on the French Riviera for twenty-five years, passing herself off as an English socialite. But her luck, and the kindness of strangers, have run out.
The arrival of a visitor from her distant past shocks Cordelia. She reacts violently to the intrusion and flees her flat to spend a drunken night at a glittering party. As dawn breaks she stumbles home through the back streets. Even before she opens her door she can hear the flies buzzing. She did not expect the corpse inside to start decomposing quite so quickly . . .
'Bloody brilliant!' — Denise Mina
'Extraordinary' — A.J. Finn
'The finest psychological thriller writer currently at work' — Tammy Cohen
'Dark, brutal and brilliant' — Colette McBeth
'Absorbing, beautifully written' — The Times, Crime Books of the Year
'Every bit as amazing as her first two [novels]' — Lisa Jewell
'Dazzling . . . chilling, mesmerising and, ultimately, devastating. Pure storytelling genius' — Mark Edwards
About the Author
Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her five novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond - have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.
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