Can You Keep a Secret

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A reunion of old friends. A revelation of old secrets. And revenge. At any cost. It's been twenty years since Lindsey has seen her old best friend Rachel Twenty years since she last set foot in Thornbury Hall - the crumbling family estate of the Bagenal family. Since Patrick Bagenal's 18th birthday party and everything that happened. It's time for a reunion Patrick has decided on one last hurrah before closing the doors of his family home for good. Himself, Lindsey and the old crowd, back together for a weekend. For the secrets to come out As the weekend draws on some of their old secrets begin to float to the surface. But some secrets should never be told. Sometimes they need to be taken to the grave. . .

Reviews

Dramatic, when a group of friends reunite in a spooky Irish stately home, the secrets soon come tumbling out * The Sunday Times Crime Club *
Elegantly written and beautifully paced, Can You Keep A Secret is a fluent, subtle and chilling novel -- Declan Hughes * The Irish Times *
A Top Ten Crime Read for Autumn * Red *
An engaging thriller * Choice Magazine *
Praise for Karen Perry -- -
Stunning -- Simon Mayo Radio 2 Book Club
Like Gone Girl . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages * Evening Standard *
Beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations -- Best Crime Fiction of 2015 * Telegraph *
A truly remarkable novel . . . Written in a captivating, lyrical style and brilliantly structured, the story grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go -- Jeffery Deaver
This is an intense and subtle story with some wonderfully poetic passages and a character driven plot which becomes more compelling as the sense of momentum gathers and the true version of events is slowly revealed. Gripping stuff * Sunday Mirror *
Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page * The Irish Independent *
Unputdownable, leading to a stunning conclusion you won't see coming -- Michelle Richmond
Full of intrigue and keeps us guessing until the very last tragic page -- Liz Nugent

Author Bio

Karen Perry is the pen name of crime writing duo Paul Perry and Karen Gillece who both live in Ireland. Can You Keep A Secret is their latest novel and follows Girl Unknown, Only We Know and The Boy That Never Was which was selected for the Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club. All three were Sunday Times bestsellers.