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Such a Nice Girl

(2026)
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Two best friends. One murder. The truth could unravel everything...

The gripping new thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of All Her Fault and No One Saw a Thing.

'Andrea Mara is fantastic!'
Freida McFadden
'Impossible to put down.'
Patricia Cornwell
'Andrea's best book yet.'
Liz Nugent

Have you seen the girls?

The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, best friends Siobhan and Grace go to wake their twenty-four-year-old daughters. Opening the door to their shared room, they find a smashed lamp, an abandoned phone and blood on the carpet.

Over the next few days, the truth unravels, testing Siobhan and Grace's friendship to its limits. As secrets and lies begin to come to light, they realise that the girls were not best friends. In fact, they weren't really friends at all. And now, it looks like one of them is dead. And one of them is a killer.

But whose daughter is guilty of murder?

‘The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone’s child.’

Everyone is talking about Such a Nice Girl:
'
Wow, this blew me away!' Claire Douglas

'An all-round
stunning thriller from the queen of the tangled web.' Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The Appeal

'
A masterclass in twists and turns.' John Marrs, bestselling author of You Killed Me First

'Andrea Mara is
one of a kind.' Jack Jordan, bestselling author of Do No Harm
'
Fast-paced, compelling, twisty and utterly absorbing... Andrea Mara is a genius storyteller.' Jane Casey, bestselling author of The Secret Room

'Twisty and so full of secrets that
you’ll be dying to discover the truth! Shari Lapena, bestselling author of The Couple Next Door

So many twists in this book I didn’t see coming’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Had me guessing to the end’ ⭐ ⭐ �� ⭐ ⭐

'Andrea Mara
never disappoints!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Gripping, tense and fabulously plotted.’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Had to pick my jaw up off the floor after one of the twists’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐



Genre: Mystery

Praise for this book

"Such a Nice Girl is an edge of your seat, breath holding read. Packed with dark, emotionally charged secrets and heart shattering what ifs, you will not see the end coming. Andrea Mara's best book yet." - Sam Blake

"I absolutely loved every second of reading this - a complete pleasure from start to finish. Andrea Mara is a genius storyteller. In Such a Nice Girl she puts you right at the heart of a catastrophic situation and turns up the tension until you feel as invested as if the characters' problems were your own. Fast-paced, compelling, twisty and utterly absorbing, this novel will delight her legions of fans." - Jane Casey

"Buckle up, you're in for one hell of a ride with this fiendishly clever, insidiously sinister novel that had me in its grip from page one. Mara is the undisputed queen of the psychological thriller and the queen of the plot twist. Her books should come with a warning - Reader Beware: Once you start, you won't be able to stop. The twists, turns and blindsides are superb. It's got everything. Sit back and enjoy - you are in the hands of a master." - Edel Coffey

"Impossible to put down - a fast paced thriller with twists and turns around every corner." - Patricia Cornwell

"Mothers. Daughters. Killers. Victims. The combinations are deadly in Andrea Mara's clever, clever new thriller, a novel that pits its characters against one another with real invention, real force. It's genuinely involving, too, as an exploration of friendship and parenthood. This is a good one." - A J Finn

"Such a Nice Girl is, in my opinion a 'Wow' book - another surefire bestseller for Andrea. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. So many twists and turns! I had no idea who was telling the truth or who was spinning lies. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride while reading it. Andrea is brilliant at plotting. A fantastic premise, executed flawlessly. I can see it as a movie!" - Patricia Gibney

"Warning: Don't start Such a Nice Girl if you have anything urgent to do... This dark mystery about two mothers and two daughters is pitch perfect, with great characters, a deviously twisting plot and a pace that breaks the speed limit. An all-round stunning thriller from the queen of the tangled web. Such a fabulous read!" - Janice Hallett

"Andrea Mara is one of a kind, writing with a vice-like grip and plots perfectly designed to speak to our deepest, darkest fears and get under our skin. Clear your calendar: once you start reading Such a Nice Girl, you won't be able to stop." - Jack Jordan

"A terrifically tense and twisty thriller. Andrea Mara has delivered another unputdownable read. I loved it." - Olivia Kiernan

"Such A Nice Girl is a very fine addition to Andrea Mara's ongoing excavation of contemporary parental anxieties. The kids are older in this one, but the stakes couldn't be higher. Privilege is fragile, complacency is punished, and what starts as a tiny crack in a perfect facade widens inexorably to a chasm. In Such A Nice Girl, the pages turn themselves, and Andrea Mara gets better and better." - Catherine Kirwan

"Riveting...twisty and so full of secrets that you'll be dying to discover the truth!" - Shari Lapena

"What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It'll leave your head spinning. Mara remains at the top of her game and I'm here for it." - John Marrs

"I honestly inhaled this,couldn't wait to get back to it. I think it's Andrea's best book yet. The twists just kept coming. An unguessable and most thrilling thriller in the plushest surroundings of south county Dublin. I bloody loved it." - Liz Nugent

"Utterly gripping from the first to the last page. I devoured it! A masterclass in maternal fear and buried secrets." - Louise O'Neill

"Such a Nice Girl is a masterful delve into human connections, friendship and familial, while delivering an unputdownable, intricately plotted, edge of your seat, twisty thriller. Gripping and oh so satisfying." - Mary Watson


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