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Disclaimer by Renée Knight

Disclaimer

by Renée Knight

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  • May 2015, 352 pages
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Finding a mysterious novel at her bedside plunges documentary filmmaker Catherine Ravenscroft into a living nightmare. Though ostensibly fiction, The Perfect Stranger recreates in vivid, unmistakable detail the terrible day she became hostage to a dark secret, a secret that only one other person knew - and that person is dead.

Now that the past is catching up with her, Catherine's world is falling apart. Her only hope is to confront what really happened on that awful day...even if the shocking truth might destroy her.

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"Starred Review. This unsettling psychological thriller about guilt and grief briskly moves to a shocking finale enhanced by its strong characters." - Publishers Weekly

"Starred Review. This debut British psychological thriller engages the reader from page one; mystery aficionados will dash to finish it in one sitting. Deliciously captivating, brilliantly twisty, and enticingly addictive, it hits the trifecta for a strong thriller!" - Library Journal

"This is a good psychological thriller with the ever-popular unreliable narrator, in this case two of them, along with lots of family drama. Sure to appeal to fans of Before I Go to Sleep, by S. J. Watson." - Booklist

"An addictive psychological thriller." - Kirkus

"Sensationally good psychological suspense…exactly what a great thriller should be." - Lee Child

"With pitch-perfect pacing and alternating narrators that leap off the page, Disclaimer is both a page-turning mystery and an artful exploration of the explosive intersection between marriage and motherhood, revenge and regret." - Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia

"Disclaimer stealthily steals your attention and by the end holds you prisoner - a searing story that resonates long after the final page." - Rosamund Lupton, New York Times bestselling author of Sister and Afterwards

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This book kept me reading at all hours and I finished it in 2 days. I jumped to all kinds of conclusions before I got to the end which really opened my eyes and surprised me. It was neatly plotted and very atmospheric. Not surprising that it's already optioned to be a movie.

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Renée Knight worked for the BBC directing arts documentaries and has had TV and film scripts commissioned by the BBC, Channel Four, and Capital Films. In April 2013, she graduated from the Faber Academy "Writing a Novel" course, whose alumni include S. J. Watson. She lives in London with her husband and two children

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