Day of the Accident: The compelling and emotional thriller with a twist you won't believe
By (Author) Nuala Ellwood
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
5th March 2019
21st February 2019
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss
Thriller / suspense fiction
Family life fiction
823.92
Paperback
400
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
277g
What did you see What did you do Sixty seconds after she wakes from a coma, Maggie's world is torn apart. The police tell her that her daughter Elspeth is dead. That she drowned when the car Maggie had been driving plunged into the river. Maggie remembers nothing. When Maggie begs to see her husband, Sean, the police tell her that he has disappeared. He was last seen on the day of their daughter's funeral. What really happened that day at the river Where is Maggie's husband And why can't she shake the suspicion that somewhere, somehow...her daughter is still alive
A stunning book. Compelling, unsettling and powerful -- C. L. Taylor
You won't see the big twist coming in this haunting thriller. A worthy successor to My Sister's Bones * Daily Express *
Memorable, jaw-dropping * Sunday Times *
Compelling and intriguing, right from the very first page -- Sharon Bolton
A clever, twisty plot that takes psychological mind games to a new level. Nuala Ellwood has done it again! -- Jane Corry
The Day of the Accident had me gasping for breath and on the verge of tears from the get-go. Twisty, haunting, and completely heart-wrenching, you won't breathe until you've turned the very last page. -- Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Grabbed me on the first page and didn't let go * Woman and Home *
Gripping, engrossing and surprising at every turn -- Rowan Coleman
A raw, shocking, and serpentine mystery that keeps you guessing until the very end -- Nicolas Obregon, author of 'Blue Light Yokohama'
This book will take all your expectations and upend them, making you question everything you thought you knew -- Emma Kavanagh
Twisty and unpredictable. Kept me guessing until the end -- Karen Cleveland, author of 'Need to Know'
Absolutely brilliant - exciting, clever, it deserves to be a bestseller -- Priscilla Masters
Nuala Ellwood is the author of three bestselling novels- My Sister's Bones for which she was selected as one of the Observer's 'New Faces of Fiction 2017', Day of the Accident and The House on the Lake. Nuala lives in York with her young son.