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“A cruel and cunning mystery. . . . Plot-twisting, mind-altering and monstrously funny.” —The New York Times Book Review
The latest gripping psychological thriller from Edgar Award winner Alex Marwood
When a child goes missing at an opulent house party, it makes international news. But what really happens behind closed doors?
Twelve years ago, Mila Jackson’s three-year-old half-sister Coco disappeared during their father’s fiftieth birthday party. Her identical twin Ruby was left behind as the only witness. The girls’ father, Sean, was wealthy and influential, as were the friends gathered at their seaside vacation home for the weekend’s debauchery. The case ignited a media frenzy and forever changed the lives of everyone involved.
Now, Sean Jackson is dead, and the people who were present that terrible night must gather once more for a funeral that will reveal that the secrets of the past can never stay hidden. Perfectly paced all the way through its devastating conclusion, The Darkest Secret is one that fans of Gillian Flynn and Liane Moriarty won't be able to put down.
“As much a black comedy of contemporary bad manners as psychological thriller, The Darkest Secret is a triumph and a treat.” —The Irish Times
- Sales Rank: #371299 in Books
- Brand: Alex Marwood
- Published on: 2016-08-30
- Released on: 2016-08-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.30" h x .90" w x 5.50" l, .73 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 400 pages
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“[A] cruel and cunning mystery. . . . Plot-twisting, mind-altering and monstrously funny.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“Perhaps the most heartfelt praise I can give the English novelist Alex Marwood’s unsettling new thriller The Darkest Secret is to report that it kept me up way, way past my bedtime . . . one astonishment follows another . . . [with a] cool eye . . . [Marwood] does a remarkable job of blending her sophisticated humor, her mordant view of the rich and the heartbreak of a missing child.”
—Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post
“This third novel from one of psychological suspense’s best writers confirms Marwood’s first hat trick with its chilling tale of a long unsolved child disappearance and the years-later death of the child’s wealthy, philandering father, striking at the heart of the area where familial and other relations meet personal self-interest.”
—The Boston Globe (Best Books of 2016)
“The Darkest Secret is no whodunit. In crafting what might be called a cutting ‘whodidn'tdoit,’ British novelist Alex Marwood takes aim at an entire social class for its self-directed, destructive ways.”
—The Chicago Tribune
“Compelling. . . . Marwood delivers a gripping cautionary tale about how one person's dominating personality can infect those around him. . . . Marwood’s keen sense of suspense and observations of human fragility lead The Darkest Secret to a stunning finale.”
—Yahoo
“Brilliant.”
—The Atlantic
“Cutting expertly from past to present among a cast of deliriously unpleasant characters, Marwood’s devilishly plotted tale arrives at an unexpectedly moving, human climax before its utterly devastating epilogue. . . . As much a black comedy of contemporary bad manners as psychological thriller, The Darkest Secret is a triumph and a treat.”
—The Irish Times
“A tense, poignant and ingeniously crafted mystery about a missing child, toxic relationships and family secrets.”
—The Guardian (“If you only buy one” crime novel, summer 2016)
“Unsettling . . . cleverly plotted and gripping.”
—Sunday Mirror
“A riveting read. Alex Marwood [is] the killer thriller writer. . . . Rarely have I found a book so unputdownable.”
—Sunday Independent
“Jackson, an identical twin, is just three years old when she goes missing. But, as the plot begins to thicken, it reveals a far more complex story than simply one of abduction by an unknown person. . . . The mystery does not give up its secrets easily. . . . compellingly told.”
—Daily Mail
“Tightly woven, precisely detailed, and consistently involving . . . truly engrossing . . . exactly what a mystery novel should be: suspenseful, comprehensive, fast-paced, upsetting, and fulfilling. Marwood proves once again why she’s become so celebrated so quickly, as she packs her sophisticated yet gritty storytelling with characters that you’ll grow to hate and/or pity. . . . Without a doubt, The Darkest Secret will stay with you for a while.”
—Pop Matters
“A book you will feel you have to finish as soon as you start reading it. A thriller with twists and turns that keep you fascinated right to the very end.”
—The Mature Times
“She won an Edgar Award for her word of mouth bestseller The Wicked Girls and a Macavity Award for The Killer Next Door. Now Marwood intrigues with another tastily twisty thriller.”
—The Evening Telegraph
“It's a cliché, but I really could hardly put down this excellent new thriller by Brit Alex Marwood. [A] twist- and passion-filled mystery.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer
“The reader’s heart sinks and pulse races as the author . . . teases out the true story. Marwood is emerging as a first-rate teller of twisted tales and ‘don’t let it be so’ suspense. Think Minette Walters and Barbara Vine with a little Gillian Flynn thrown in.”
—Booklist
“For readers who prefer their psychological thrillers dark, twisty, and filled with loathsome people, Marwood serves up the perfect dish.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Compulsively readable. . . . Marwood shifts time periods effortlessly and created a noxious cast of characters.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The Darkest Secret is Alex Marwood's best book yet—no small thing when one considers that her first two crime novels were both award winners. Her plots are always top-notch—deft, twisty—but it's the humanity she grants all her characters that makes her one of our best. This story will grip you to the final page, but Milly and her troubled family may never leave you.”
—Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of What the Dead Know and Every Secret Thing
“With the psychological acuity of Kate Atkinson and a dark wit all her own, Alex Marwood draws us into The Darkest Secret with utter narrative cunning, then surprises with its emotional wallop, its deeper resonances. In so doing, she demonstrates, without a doubt, that she is one of crime fiction’s brightest stars. Not to be missed.”
—Megan Abbott, Edgar award winning authof of Dare Me and The Fever
“At turns suspenseful, chilling and deeply, unexpectedly moving, The Darkest Secret is a true tour de force. Alex Marwood's richly detailed, heartbreakingly human characters will stay with you long after the book's shocking conclusion. I loved it.”
—Alison Gaylin, USA Today bestselling author of the Brenna Spector Series
“With The Darkest Secret, Alex Marwood has become one of my must-read crime writers. It's an amazingly gripping book, and the structure is a thing of beauty.”
—Sophie Hannah, internationally bestselling author of The Wrong Mother and The Dead Lie Down
“Simply tremendous, so tense and packed with pathos. I loved every page of it.”
—Sarah Hilary, author of Someone Else's Skin and No Other Darkness
About the Author
Alex Marwood is the pseudonym of a journalist who has worked extensively across the British press. Her first novel, The Wicked Girls, won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and the Anthony and ITW Awards for Best Paperback Original. The Killer Next Door, her second novel, won a Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, was nominated for the Anthony and Barry, and has been optioned for film by James Franco and Ahna O’Reilly. Marwood lives in south London and is working on her next novel.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
PEOPLE YOU WILL LOVE TO HATE - Don't miss it.
By Marie Causey Spence
I so throughly enjoyed Alex Marwood's two earlier novels, The Wicked Girls and The Killer Next Door, I could not wait for The Darkest Secret to be available in the States. I ordered as soon as it was available in England. I am glad I did. I was lucky enough to be able to devote an entire day to reading The Darkest Secret. It is a hard to put down novel. The story grips you from the beginning and the pace accelerates to a point where you can not turn the page quickly enough. The mystery of a child who goes missing during a house party attended by a cast of overwhelmingly unlikeable characters will keep you searching for clues on each page as to who may be the most likely suspect. The characters are richly developed and the author creatively lets the story evolve with flashbacks to the time surrounding the child going missing with the present and the event bringing the cast together again. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
By Jack
Alex Marwood's stunning debut novel, The Wicked Girls, was astonishing and won an Edgar Award. She followed that up with the equally amazing, and completely different, The Killer Next Door, and won the Macavity Award. How do you follow up two remarkably amazing novels? I would probably never write another book and simply rest on my laurels, dining out on my fabulous first two award winning books.
If you're Alex Marwood, you somehow find another gear and kick it up yet another notch.
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2004/Sunday/4:45 a.m./Seam
He waits while she pulls up her dress, then helps with the zip. In the grey dawn light she looks washed out, her blonde hair brassy rather than rich, her forehead shiny from too many preservative treatments. But still: better than the woman almost ten years her junior who's stormed off across the lawns ahead of them. Sean suddenly feels every decade of his five decades. I'm going to have the hangover from hell in a few hours, he thinks. And I bet Claire won't give me a hall pass just because it's my birthday.
"S***," says Linda. "S***, s***, s***, s***, s***."
Absently, he reaches out and kneads the muscles at the back of her neck. They're tense, like granite. He's sure they weren't like that when he had his hands there ten minutes ago. Claire spoils everything.
"It'll be okay," he says.
She rounds on him, her eyes narrowed, but still not a line to be seen on the shiny, shiny skin above. "How will it be okay, Sean? Go on. Tell me. What, you think she's going to keep this to herself? Think she's going to just meekly ignore this? She'll be on to her lawyers before they've even opened. You'd better check out your pre-nup, because you're going to need to be water-tight."
So begins the narrative of The Darkest Secret, following an email regarding the disappearance of three year old Coco Jackson from a posh seaside resort home, and several witness statements. The story of what happened to Coco flashes back and forth in time, between the weekend when Coco disappeared and the present, where the shocking sudden death of Coco's father--found handcuffed to a bedpost in a hotel room--has brought the case back to the attention of the media--and also the occasion of his funeral brings all the people who were there the weekend she disappeared back together again, years later, and old secrets and lies are dredged up again.
Coco's father, the wretched and vile narcissistic developer Sean Jackson, is as incapable of caring for and about his children as he is about being faithful to his wives. One of his daughters from his first marriage, Mila, is a point of view character in the present day; her reactions to long buried emotions and feelings for her now-dead father are even more complicated by her decision to take her half-sister Ruby, Coco's surviving twin, to the funeral weekend with her--where both she and Ruby will have to confront their father's widow--slightly older than Ruby but younger than Mila, as well as having to deal with Ruby's mother Claire--whose life was shattered by the guilt and blame for what happened to Coco as well as the end of her own marriage over the course of the weekend.
The book is an absolute tour-de-force, filled with shocks and surprises, as the timeline goes back and forth in time, as we learn what really happened that weekend as well as what is going on in the present, where Mila comes to terms with her own feelings, and how the events of her father's birthday weekend--and her half-sister's disappearance--have affected her own life and the decisions she has made.
This is a tour-de-force, and a master class in how to write a suspenseful thriller.
I cannot recommend this highly enough.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Evil makes a good story.
By Kindle Customer
It is hard to give a good review to a book with such reprehensible, evil characters. But, honestly, it was impossible to put this book down. Alex Marwood is a very good writer who can create characters with no redeeming virtues or moral core and still one reads on. Be advised this book is a compelling story of rotten people.
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