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***Complicit* is a gripping psychological thriller by the highly acclaimed and Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French** * * * Who is more deadly? An enemy? A friend? Or a lover? Bonnie Graham is in her friend's flat. She is alone, except for the dead body lying in a pool of blood. What happened? What will she do? And is any or all of it her fault? Bonnie is a music teacher who has spent a long, hot summer in London rehearsing with a band. It was supposed to be fun, but the tricky knots of the band's friendships unravel with each passing day. What was meant to be a summer of happiness, music and love turns deadly as lovers betray, passions turn homicidal and friendship itself becomes a crime. Someone in the band must be a killer. Is it Bonnie? And if not - who is it? Praise for Nicci French: 'Relentlessly addictive . . . Friendship and betrayal has never been so deadly' *Mirror* ** 'A gripping crime mystery, an accomplished thriller' *Woman* ** 'Exerts a vice-like grip' *Daily Telegraph* 'Reels in readers from the start' *Independent* ** Nicci French is the pseudonym for Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. The couple live in Suffolk and have written thirteen other bestselling novels, all published by Penguin:* What to Do When Someone Dies, Until It's Over, Losing You, Catch Me When I Fall, The Memory Game, Beneath the Skin, The Safe House, The Red Room, Land of the Living, Killing Me Softly, Secret Smile *and, most recently,* Blue Monday *and *Tuesday's Gone* in the brilliant new Frieda Klein series. Find out more about the authors and books at www.niccifrench.co.uk. ### From Publishers Weekly At the start of this pitch-perfect thriller from British author French, the husband-wife team of Sean French and Nicci Gerard, band singer Bonnie finds her summer fling boyfriend and fellow band member, Hayden, dead on the floor of a friend's London apartment. She proceeds to hide the corpse and obliterate every sign of her presence at the crime scene. This course of action is, predictably, full of pitfalls. Hayden's well-known involvement with other women could have provided Bonnie a motive for murder. To complicate matters, at least one more person appears to have altered the crime scene. Told in a tantalizing series of flashbacks, the narrative draws you into the inner world of the protagonist, a tough cookie who nevertheless endures a relationship that's so abusive the reader is never quite sure that she did not, in fact, snap. French (*Until It's Over*) takes the time to tease out individual characters to a degree seldom seen in crime fiction, saving the final plot twist for the last page. *(May)* Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. ### Review Praise for *Until It’s Over* “It's a fascinating and creepy look inside the feelings and motives of a serial killer.” —*Star Tribune* (Minneapolis) “Novels by Nicci French promise three things: engaging characters, an intricate story, and a sultry atmosphere. This one delivers all three, in spades.” —*Booklist* “The suspense never falters. . . . Justice-hungry readers will enjoy watching the net constrict around the criminal.” —*Publishers Weekly* Praise for *Losing You *“Lose yourself in this smart nail-biter of a tale about a mother’s desperate search for her missing teenage daughter.” —*People* “Nina is the parent we’d all like to be under duress, and I find I’ve become nearly as protective of her as she is of her daughter.” —Salon.com