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Huge thanks as always to the stupendous team at Hodder, especially Carolyn Mays, Ruth Tross and Abby Parsons, who helped knock this book into shape; to Peter Straus and Matthew Turner at Rogers, Coleridge & White; to Dan, Phoebe, Guy and Brewster, to Morgan White, for being the exact person Jermain Defoe and I needed at the exact right time; to Emily Winslow, who provided brilliantly incisive editorial comments; to Adele Geras, who read an early draft and said nice things about it as always; to Dan Mallory for his boundless enthusiasm and faith in my writing; to the lovely and brilliant Al Murray, on whose tour dates Kim’s were based; to Mathew and James Prichard and family, and everyone at Agatha Christie Ltd; to Anne Grey, my source of infinite wisdom; and to Jim Swarz, whose website www.shiningworld.com and whose book The Essence of Enlightenment formed the basis of Lane Baillie’s spiritual outlook! And enormous thanks to my right-hand man Jamie Bernthal, who spotted many plot continuity errors that I missed.

Also, a massive thank you to everyone who supports my books – readers, international publishers, Twitter friends who cheer me up in between bouts of hard writing!

A GAME FOR ALL THE FAMILY

A chilling standalone novel from the queen of psychological crime …

Justine thought she knew who she was, until someone seemed to know better …

After escaping London and a career that nearly destroyed her, Justine plans to spend her days doing as little as possible in her beautiful new home.

But soon after the move, her daughter starts to withdraw when her new best friend, George, is unfairly expelled from school. Justine begs the head teacher to reconsider, only to be told that nobody's been expelled – there is, and was, no George.

Then the anonymous calls start: a stranger, making threats that suggest she and Justine share a guilty secret. And then the caller starts talking about three graves – two big and one small, to fit a child …

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