The Wicked Girls

Name: The Wicked Girls
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Alex Marwood
ISBN: 9781452685977

Author: Alex Marwood

Narrator: Anna Bentinck

Unabridged: 14 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/06/2013

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

On a fateful summer morning in 1986, two eleven-year-old girls meet for the first time. By the end of the day, they will both be charged with murder. Twenty-five years later, journalist Kirsty Lindsay is reporting on a series of sickening attacks on young female tourists in a seaside vacation town when her investigation leads her to interview carnival cleaner Amber Gordon. For Kirsty and Amber, it's the first time they've seen each other since that dark day so many years ago. Now with new, vastly different lives—and unknowing families to protect—will they really be able to keep their wicked secret hidden?

Gripping and fast-paced, with an ending that will stay with you long after you've read it, The Wicked Girls will appeal to fans of the Academy Award–nominated film Heavenly Creatures and the novels of Rosamund Lupton and Chevy Stevens.

About Alex Marwood

Alex Marwood is the pseudonym of a journalist who has worked extensively across the British press. Her first novel, The Wicked Girls, won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original, and was nominated for the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel and the Anthony and ITW Awards for Best Paperback Original. The Killer Next Door, her second novel, won a Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, was nominated for the Anthony and Barry, and has been optioned for film by James Franco and Ahna O'Reilly. Alex lives in south London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on January 25, 2015

This is one of those books with a fairly straightforward plot that's a vehicle to say a lot of things about a lot of topics: how much of one's fate is set in childhood, parenting, relationships, the seemingly inescapable crucible of environment, class differences, the media, emotional and physical a......more

Goodreads review by Blair on July 09, 2015

I started off thinking this would be a formulaic crime thriller that would provide me with a bit of cheap enjoyment but wouldn't be particularly well-written. Then I got excited when I realised it had more depth and detail than your average mystery, and thought it had the potential to be excellent.......more

Goodreads review by Original Doll on March 15, 2015

Davne 1986.godine dogodilo se stravično ubojstvo četverogodišnjakinje, a dvije nešto starije djevojčice proglašene su krivima za ubojstvo. Opisane su kao “čisto zlo” te su im nakon godina provedenih u popravnim institucijama dati novi identiteti. Iako na doživotnoj uvjetnoj, dobile su novu priliku z......more