The dark, twisty new domestic suspense that will leave you gasping โ from the author of Cuckoo
Sheโs married to him. But does she know him at all?Claire lives with her family in a beautiful house overlooking the water. But she feels as if sheโs married to a stranger โ one who is leading a double life. As soon as she can get their son Joe away from him, sheโs determined to leave Duncan.
But finding out the truth about Duncanโs secret life leads to consequences Claire never planned for. Now Joe is missing, and sheโs struggling to piece together the events of the night that tore them all apart.
Alone in an isolated cottage, hiding from Duncan, Claire tries to unravel the lies theyโve told each other, and themselves. Something happened to her family ... But can she face the truth?
Perfect for readers who loved The Whisper Man, Here to Stay, and Sleep
โA deftly dark, creepy and disturbing psychological thrillerโ LoveReading
โGreat for anyone who loves an enticing thrillerโ Marie Claire
โAn eerie page-turnerโ Crime Scene Magazine
โChilling and heart-rending, a creepy, atmospheric story with a beautifully-drawn, bleak setting and memorably flawed charactersโ Roz Watkins
โBeautifully written, with a chilling mystery at its core, Magpie is a suspenseful and twisty pleasure of a readโ Howard Linskey
โThis eerie tale lingered with me for days after Iโd read the final page. I didnโt see the final twist coming!โ Nicola Rayner
โI could not stop reading this โ creepy and compelling. I loved itโ Sarah Ward
Sophie Draper won the Bath Novel Award 2017 with her debut novel Cuckoo. She has also won the Friday Night Live competition at the York Festival of Writing 2017. She lives in Derbyshire, where Cuckoo and Magpie are both set, and under the name Sophie Snell she works as a traditional oral storyteller.