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Retreat

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25th March 2025

Price: £22

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781408722800

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The Talented Mr Ripley meets How to Kill Your Family. Sharp, funny and has a twist you won’t see coming’ Eve Kellman

Even for a con artist, Liz is about to take things way, way too far . . .


Liz has always had a knack for charming people and gaining their trust. That’s what makes her such a talented con artist. But lately the pressure’s rising – Liz’s past crimes have started snapping at her heels. So she leaps at the chance to escape to the Mexican coast to decorate a socialite’s new villa, planning to lie low, enjoy paradise, and behave herself for once.

When Liz is mistaken for her absent employer, Isabelle, she can’t help getting drawn into this glamorous seafront community. But dangerous secrets lurk beneath the surface, and it’s not long before Liz realises that this time, she might be in over her head . . .

Spoiler: it’s going to be carnage.

‘Sexy, breakneck, full of surprises. A wild ride’ Mary Kubica

‘Written with enormous verve, this effervescent story featuring the resourceful – if amoral – Liz glitters like the diamond on her finger’ Daily Mail

‘Try not to drop it in the pool at the jaw-dropping twist’ Ellery Lloyd

‘A fiendish tale of trouble in paradise. Expertly paced, tightly plotted’ LA Times

‘This book was a great read. Who doesn’t love a well-written bad girl?’ ***** Reader Review

‘Razor-sharp’ Wendy Walker

‘This book was so much fun to read! One big twist and turn after another’ ***** Reader Review

‘A dynamite read’ Rachel Sargeant

‘A whirlwind. I read it over the course of a few hours’ ***** Reader Review

‘Seductive and satisfying’ Vikki Patis

Reviews

GILLIAN FLYNN, author of GONE GIRL
A phenomenal, haunting debut
LIBRARY JOURNAL
A must-read for fans of the popular 'rich people behaving badly' subgenre of thrillers. Those who enjoyed The Last Flight by Julie Clark and Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty will enjoy Ritter's new novel
WOMEN.COM
A sleek, sun-drenched noir that sees identity to be as fluid as morality. This serpentine psychological thriller feels straight out of Hollywood's murkiest corners. It's the perfect pick for book clubs who love their drama stylish, seductive, and surreptitious
EVE KELLMAN, author of HOW TO KILL A GUY IN TEN WAYS
The Talented Mr Ripley meets How to Kill Your Family; this is sharp, funny and has a twist you won't see coming
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story
ELLERY LLOYD, author of THE CLUB
Smart, sexy and wickedly fun: this is everything you want in a sun-drenched thriller. Ritter can really write - you'll race through Retreat in a day, rooting for its sparky anti-heroine (just try not to drop it in the pool at the jaw-dropping twist)
WENDY WALKER, author WHAT REMAINS
Razor-sharp and utterly shocking
POPSUGAR
Krysten Ritter made a name for herself by portraying some of the fiercest female characters in pop culture history. It should come as no surprise, then, that her debut novel carries that same level of strength and complexity on every single page
DAILY MAIL
Packed with suspense and moves at a cracking pace
THE TIMES
Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroine . . . An excellent debut
MARIE CLAIRE
An expertly plotted page-turner
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PRAISE FOR RETREAT
RUTH WARE, author of ONE BY ONE
Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable
BLAKE CROUCH, author of DARK MATTER
Bonfire is a stone-cold stunner - the writing is dazzling
MARY KUBICA, author of SHE'S NOT SORRY
Multitalented Krysten Ritter is back with a sexy, breakneck thriller that immerses readers in the sometimes-glamorous and sometimes-deadly life of a con artist. Full of surprises and edge-of-your-seat scenes, Retreat is a wild ride
VIKKI PATIS, author of THE WAKE
Sun-soaked and razor-sharp, Retreat serves up women's wrongs in a seductive, satisfying fashion
RACHEL SARGEANT, author of THE PERFECT NEIGHBOURS
A sultry, shocking and sizzling tale of duplicity and desperation - a dynamite read
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PRAISE FOR KRYSTEN RITTER
BOOKLIST
Agile plotting . . . Gripping
LA TIMES
Retreat begins by showing what smooth-operating scammer Liz is capable of. But as Ritter thickens her plot and ups the stakes, swapping con tricks for corpses, the book turns into a mystery, one that its antiheroine tries frantically to unravel . . . A fiendish tale of trouble in paradise . . . Expertly paced, tightly plotted
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
Actress Ritter makes a triumphant fiction debut with this pulse-pounding thriller featuring a sympathetic, broken lead character . . . Pitch-perfect
DAILY MAIL
Written with enormous verve, this effervescent story featuring the resourceful - if amoral - Liz glitters like the diamond on her finger