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Published: 13th May 2025
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Published: 13th August 2024
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The Next Girl
By (Author) Emiko Jean
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
13th May 2025
13th February 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Psychological thriller
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
Paperback
320
Width 128mm, Height 197mm, Spine 20mm
223g
From a New York Times bestselling author comes a nail-biting and emotional new thriller, for fans of Gillian Flynn and Abigail Dean. I guess you're probably wondering about the next girl. Because there's always another girl, right A girl waiting to be taken. To be swept away. I'll tell you about her. It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun lost her sister, and she's been searching ever since- for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. Happy endings are rare in Chelsey's line of work. Until, two years after her disappearance, local teenager Ellie Black is found alive in Washington State woods. But something's not right about her- where has she been, and who is she protecting Chelsey has to find out. For herself, for her sister, and before the next girl is taken.
Magnetic. I couldn't put it down. * Stephen King *
Immersive, gripping, and with a twist you wont see coming * Ellery Lloyd *
Incredible. The definition of a page-turner. * Clare Mackintosh *
Truly compelling. Emiko Jean will soon be a household name. * Daily Mail *
What a page-turner, and masterful in its structure with a truly shocking twist at the end. Its an absolute winner for me. * Susan Lewis *
An emotional gut punch of a thriller, Emiko Jean had me enthralled with her pitch-perfect pacing, elegant prose, and twists I never saw coming. * Samantha Downing *
I stayed up late into the night turning the pages . . . a truly jaw-dropping twist. * Jessica Knoll *
Brooding and atmospheric with a truly gripping plot. THE NEXT GIRL is an immersive experience. * Mary Kubica *
Dark, twisted, and beautifully written. But it's also a thoughtful exploration of trauma, female rage, the violence women face and the roles we're allowed to play. I loved it. * Andrea Bartz *
A stunning novel that explores the endurance of the human spirit and asks how far someone would go for love. * Nikki Smith *
Emiko Jean is a NYT bestselling author, whose YA and women's fiction has been Reese Witherspoon and Good Morning America book club picks. She lives in Washington with her husband and their two unruly twins. The Next Girl is her first thriller.