The Guilty One: The stunning Richard & Judy Book Club pick

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This book is full of twists and turns and keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end, highly recommend! An assured, confident debut, combining the humanist outlook of Denise Mina with taut courtroom drama. If you enjoy psychological thrillers with well-developed characters and unexpected plot twists, this book is worth a read. Read extracts of her novels, watch Lisa talking about her characters and inspirations, download questions for your reading group and discover the latest news and reviews. The film was released in a limited release on September 24, 2021, then digitally on Netflix on October 1.

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Her debut, The Guilty One, was a Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller, Edgar-Award nominated and translated into nearly thirty languages. The Guilty One is an amazingly good story with what feels like real characters with complex relationships! Both Nicolas and Emma make some pretty terrible decisions but I found that they both acted like real people in difficult situations, which made me empathetic towards them. Joe relays the information to the California Highway Patrol, who cannot locate the van without a license plate number.

Maybe it should be; there’s value in addressing serious problems from the confines of a gimmicky pulp thriller. Detective Cal Farrell was the responding officer to a mass office shooting, took down the bad guy and became a town hero and a newly promoted detective. He stopped an active shooter six months earlier, and now he’s become the darling of the Alexandria press.

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I was incredibly impressed by how complex each character was, and how they really dealt with their struggles.

All of the main characters suffered from a mixture of those issues, which made them very real people with inner struggles regardless of their façade.