Scrap: 'Blackly humorous and enjoyably twisted' Paula Hawkins

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'Blackly humorous and enjoyably twisted' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train

'A knotted mystery too intriguing to leave unpicked' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller

Someone is always guilty.

Abandoned by her girlfriend and with a mortgage to pay, artist Esther Ray reluctantly accepts a job from the deliriously wealthy Naomi Duncan: to produce a series of scrapbooks, tracing the Duncans' twenty-five-year marriage - a secret birthday gift for Naomi's husband, Bryce.

As Esther works through the boxes of Duncan detritus, she finds herself increasingly infatuated with the gilded family - until, mid-project, Naomi dies.

Esther is convinced that Bryce killed her. She just needs to find the evidence, and resist getting dragged back into the scorched earth of her own past long enough to prove it.

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Scrap offers a bricolage of arson, true crime, mystery and murder that takes its readers from the cosy humility of scrapbooking to the lofty heights of champagne dinners, exclusive gallery openings and private jets. At its wicked heart - a knotted mystery too intriguing to leave unpicked. -- Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller
Art, true crime and extreme wealth collide in this blackly humorous and enjoyably twisted mystery -- Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
A binge-worthy novel . . . Her sharp, intelligent prose and ability to create settings real enough to touch makes Scrap a brilliantly immersive and almost cinematic experience. If morally grey is your favourite colour, Scrap should be your next read * Jenny Mustard, author of Okay Days *
Fans of White Lotus might find much that appeals in this screwy black comedy that revels in the fabulously entertaining dysfunction at the heart of the world's disgustingly wealthy . . . Henkel's lacerating eye for the morally ambiguous keeps you hooked * Daily Mail *
A darkly humorous mystery about true crime, art and revenge * i *

Author Bio

Calla Henkel is an American writer, playwright, director and artist living between Berlin and Los Angeles. Her debut novel, Other People's Clothes, was a New York Times Book Review 'Editors' Choice'. She has staged plays at Volksbuhne Berlin and the Whitney Museum of Art, and her artistic work with Max Pitegoff has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. She currently operates a theatre in Los Angeles, called New Theater Hollywood. Scrap is her second novel.