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A STUNNING REISSUE OF THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER – OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE – NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES

Enter the world of One Folgate Street and discover perfection . . . but can you pay the price?

Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultra-minimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules.

After moving in, she makes a shocking discovery about the previous tenant, Emma, and Jane starts to wonder if her own story will be a rerun of the girl before.

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‘DAZZLING’Lee Child
‘ADDICTIVE’Daily Express
‘DEVASTATING’Daily Mail
‘INGENIOUS’The New York Times
‘COMPULSIVE’Glamour Magazine
‘ELEGANT’Peter James
‘SEXY’Mail on Sunday
‘ENTHRALLING’Woman and Home
‘ORIGINAL’The Times
‘RIVETING’Lisa Gardner
‘CREEPY’Heat
‘SATISFYING’Reader’s Digest
‘SUPERIOR’The Bookseller

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS CRIME & THRILLER BOOK OF THE YEAR
THE SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH
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Reviews

Lee Child
Dazzling - a pitch-perfect thriller
Peter James
I was instantly gripped and held captivated by the pace and elegant writing. I devoured it in two straight sittings
Lisa Gardner
Riveting! One of the most compelling page-turners I've read in years. Twisty, turny, and with an ending not to be missed!
Joseph Finder
The Girl Before is a cat-and-mouse game that toys with our expectations and twists our sympathies. At times almost unbearably suspenseful, it keeps us guessing from the first page to the very last. Don't miss it
Booklist
A masterfully crafted spellbinder . . . guaranteed to astonish
The Bookseller
Superior psychological suspense . . . a cleverly constructed thriller
Publishers Weekly
Riveting . . . Writing with precision and grace, Delaney strips away the characters' secrets until the raw truth of each is revealed
Prima
A guaranteed best-seller
Daily Mail
The tension is built up subtly, leading to a devastating climax. A really clever thriller . . . [the film] will no doubt become the third big 'Girl' film
Daily Express
A deeply addictive literary thriller that deserves to be one of this year's biggest successes
The Times
Original and entertaining
Cosmopolitan
Get hooked on this hair-raiser about a woman who scores what seems like her dream home . . . until she finds out the mysterious fate of the previous tenant
The Washington Post
The Girl Before is deservedly anointed the 'top girl' of this season's suspense novels
Heat
Creepy . . . The buzz around this could not be fizzier
Reader's Digest
Constantly cranking up the suspense . . . a thoroughly satisfying read
Peter James for Big Issue North
A great thriller and one that instantly hooks you in, in the very first line, and never lets you go . . . utterly compelling and very satisfying . . . A wonderful portrayal of psychological obsession at its creepy best
Woman and Home
Enthralling
Red Magazine
A guaranteed best-seller
Mail on Sunday
Slick, sexy, suspenseful and smart
Glamour Magazine Online
A compulsive, sexy thriller that's set to soar
Irish Independent
The plotting is exceptionally well thought-through
Sainsbury's Magazine
A crisp psychological thriller
The Spectator
The most intriguing plot idea I've seen in a good while
Boundless Magazine
The Girl Before is more than worthy of the accolades . . . a complex triangle of twisted obsession . . . say goodbye to your nails
The New York Times
Ingenious
Vanity Fair
JP Delaney builds the suspense
InStyle
This is going to be the buzziest book of 2017 . . . This year The Girl Before will be that book
USA Today
Genuinely eerie . . . beautifully handled . . . the pages fly
New York Journal of Books
One of the best thrillers you'll read in 2017
The Sun
Original and brilliantly written
The Sunday Times
A remarkably poised (debut) psychological thriller
Sunday Times
An outstanding debut that is more than a match for Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train
The Lady
A fast-paced page-turner
Evening Standard
Horribly compelling