Other Women

A Guardian Best Thriller Novel of the YearZoe Ball’s Radio 2 Book Club pick Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint’s Other Women is a devastating story of obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago.

‘This is a book that will stay with you’ – Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera seriesLondon, 1923. Like so many single women after the Great War, Beatrice Cade, a thirty-seven-year-old typist, is holding tight to her small scrap of independence and trying to build a life for herself.

When charismatic visiting salesman Tom Ryan directs his attention at her, Bea falls hard for him. But Ryan is married with a child. And his wife, Kate, has worked to create a seemingly happy domestic life. When Bea is found dead and Tom Ryan is in the frame for her murder, it looks like Kate will do anything to protect her family . . .

‘Compelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful’ – Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground