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He Said/She Said

On sale

20th April 2017

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Digital (deliver electronic) / ISBN-13: 9781444797176

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2018
RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 2018
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SHORTLISTED FOR CRIME AND THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THEAKSTON OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018

Haunting. Mesmerising. Unforgettable.’ Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl

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Don’t be left in the dark.

In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, four lives change forever.

Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear.

And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, she also knows that you can never see the whole picture: something is always hidden . . . something she never could have guessed.

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‘I’m calling it: THIS is the book I wish I’d written’ Clare Mackintosh, author of Let Me Lie

It’s SO good . . . I was carrying it around the house I was so gripped‘ Sarah Perry, author of The Essex Serpent

A gripping, twisting, furiously clever read . . . I loved it‘ Ruth Ware, author of The Lying Game

It’s magnificent. Stunningly twisty plot and weep-makingly brilliant writing‘ Marian Keyes, author of The Break

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Reviews

Cosmopolitan
A gripping, dark thriller...A thrilling tale of dangerous obsession, the book explores how far the ramifications of a single event can reach.
Susie Steiner, author of <i>Missing, Presumed</i>
Not just a tense psychological drama but a meditation on the complex view. Kelly brilliantly uses the eclipse as metaphor, exploring the fact that though we long for black and white, the partial view is all we ever get. Dive in.
Jenny Blackhurst, author of <i>How I Lost You</i>
Twisted, atmospheric and perfectly plotted. Her best yet.
Anya Lipska, author of <i>Where the Devil Can’t Go</i>
Kelly proves herself (once again) a mistress of the dark arts of psychological thriller writing with sinuous storytelling that beguiles and entraps the reader. Lingers in the mind long after the final page. Set to be the psych thriller of 2017
Kate Rhodes, author of <i>Crossbones Yard</i>
Fantastic... a real tour de force, with characters I won't forget any time soon
Claire McGowan, author of <i>The Lost</i>
Tense, beautifully written and with a real gut-punch of a twist
Ruth Ware, author of <i>The Woman in Cabin 10</i>
A tour de force - a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it.
Sarah Perry, author of <i>The Essex Serpent</i>
It's SO good...I was carrying it around the house I was so gripped
Alex Marwood, author of <i>The Darkest Secret</i>
Kelly is a beautiful writer who can conjure an atmosphere with exceptional skill...a fantastic psychological thriller replete with mystery and misdirection
Marian Keyes, author of <i>The Woman Who Stole My Life</i>
It's magnificent. Stunningly twisty plot and weep-makingly brilliant writing
Julia Crouch, author of <i>Cuckoo</i>
I loved this book...Exceptionally clever.
Sinéad Crowley, author of <i>Are You Watching Me?</i>
It has a twist, and a stunning one at that but there is much more to this superbly written psychological drama...Intelligent, thought provoking and utterly compelling, this book held me spell bound until the very last page.
Claire Kendal, author of <i>The Book of You</i>
Deeply immersive... an ingeniously constructed and thrilling novel about the many different forms of betrayal
Janet Ellis, author of <i>The Butcher's Hook</i>
Erin Kelly speaks the language of tension fluently. HE SAID/SHE SAID will make you question everything you know and suspect everyone you think you can trust. My first response was to read it all over again, to see where the traps were set.
Samantha Hayes, author of <i>Until You're Mine</i>
HE SAID/SHE SAID tantalisingly exposes the lives of beautifully drawn characters, holding them under a magnifying glass as the consequences of one terrifying moment during an eclipse ripple out over the years. With all the anticipation and tension of an actual eclipse - mysterious, breathtaking, powerful - Erin Kelly captures the essence of the 'unputdownable novel' by combining fear, breathtaking twists and turns, as well as her trademark bewitching prose.
Adele Parks, author of <i>The Stranger in My Home</i>
Erin Kelly keeps you guessing to the very last page, she cleverly reminds us of our own fallibility and gullibility
Helen Fitzgerald, author of <i>Viral</i>
Multi-layered and stylish, with characters you feel you know, dilemmas you can imagine grappling with, and a hurtling plot that's unpatronising and clever to the last page. My admiration for Erin Kelly has just gone up another notch.
Holly Seddon, author of <i>Try Not to Breathe</i>
I devoured it...weaves such a delicate line between everyone's version of the truth, it was impossible to stop reading.
SJI Holliday, author of <i>Willow Walk</i>
A masterclass in drip-fed suspense, beautifully written and astutely observed. This book left me extremely tense throughout - in a good way!
Kate Hamer, author of <i>The Girl in the Red Coat</i>
A superbly dark and complex psychological thriller from a really exceptional author. Kelly' s beautiful and atmospheric writing pulls you in from the first page. I read right into the night.
Gillian Flynn, author of <i>Gone Girl</i>
Haunting. Mesmerising. Unforgettable.
Isabelle Grey, author of <i>The Bad Mother</i>
An addictive read. The mystery and majesty of the total solar eclipses lends an eerie inevitability to the doomed and twisted attempts of Erin Kelly's all-too-human characters to control their lives.
Colette McBeth, author of <i>The Life I Left Behind</i>
A haunting and beautifully twisted tale of desire and deceit. Erin Kelly is the kind of writer whose work you read and instantly wish it were your own.
Lucy Dawson, author of <i>You Sent Me a Letter</i>
HE SAID/SHE SAID is dazzling...you simply won't be able to look away. Erin Kelly is a class act on top form.
Clare Mackintosh, author of <i>I See You</i>
I'm calling it: THIS is the book I wish I'd written
Linda Green, author of <i>While My Eyes Were Closed</i>
A taut, cleverly constructed novel about what we see, know and understand - and how they are not always the same thing. Prepare to step into the darkness...
Jenny Colgan, author of <i>The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After</i>
Superbly twisty and readable thriller; pure enjoyment
T.R. Richmond, author of <i>What She Left</i>
Kept me guessing, kept me gripped and kept me thinking
William Ryan, author of <i>The Constant Soldier</i>
I loved HE SAID/SHE SAID. Beautifully written, gripping and as twisty and dangerous as a 400-page-long rattlesnake, this is Erin Kelly at the absolute top of her game, and everyone else's too
Sharon Bolton, author of <i>Daisy in Chains</i>
Deliciously tense and twisty.
Alexandra Burt, author of <i>Little Girl Gone</i>
From the very first sentence, HE SAID/SHE SAID casts a shadow - how to undo what is done. The ending is as inevitable as it is dark; it swept me away and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Lucie Whitehouse, author of <i>Keep You Close</i>
Love and its twisted opposite, truth and lies that shade from little white to pitch-dark. Here be images to haunt you and characters to make you doubt your own judgement.
Louise Millar
Brilliant. A masterclass in how to write a gripping psychological thriller.
Stylist
Thought-provoking and sensitively handled
Red magazine
A clever, compulsive read, which sinks its claws into you and won't let go
Telegraph
Erin Kelly has written several good psychological thrillers, but in He Said / She Said she ascends to a new plane of ingenuity. Her ability to switch between the sordid reality of crime and juicy melodrama, the story anchored within the realm of plausibility by the care with which she brings her characters and settings to life, reminded me of Ruth Rendell at her best.
Sunday Mirror
There's so much to love here - seamless plotting, descriptive prose, characters so real they pull you in to their tangled lives - and then an absolute humdinger of a twist that will take your breath away.
Grazia
A dark, incredibly atmospheric psychological thriller with a clever, elaborate plot that sucks you in step by step. An unpredictable yet always plausible story about the far-reaching consequences of actions and even lies. A gripping page-turner
Observer
Kelly is a master at drip-feeding us the details, keeping us guessing about the truth, and the many shades of grey it contains, right until the end.
Women & Home
Brilliantly plotted, packed with suspense
The Sunday Times
Expertly constructed
Mail on Sunday
Erin Kelly is one of the finest stylists in British crime fiction, and this is further proof of her gift for creating tension...a compelling, very modern thriller
The Times
Gradually, with skilful pacing and growing tension, Erin Kelly reveals shocks and twists that go on until the very last page
Metro
Genuinely thrilling