Believe Me

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In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation.  “A compelling read . . . redefines the concept of an unreliable narrator . . . [a] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review)
A struggling actor, a Brit in America without a green card, Claire
needs work and money to survive. Then she gets both. But nothing like
she expected.   Claire agrees to become a decoy for a firm of
divorce lawyers. Hired to entrap straying husbands, she must catch them
on tape with their seductive propositions.   The rules? Never
hit on the mark directly. Make it clear you’re available, but he has to
proposition you, not the other way around. The firm is after evidence,
not coercion. The innocent have nothing to hide.   Then the game changes.  
When the wife of one of Claire’s targets is violently murdered, the
cops are sure the husband is to blame. Desperate to catch him before he
kills again, they enlist Claire to lure him into a confession.  
Claire can do this. She’s brilliant at assuming a voice and an
identity. For a woman who’s mastered the art of manipulation, how
difficult could it be to tempt a killer into a trap?   But who is the decoy . . . and who is the prey?
Praise

“A compelling read . . . redefines the concept of an unreliable
narrator . . . [a] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review)Praise for JP Delaney’s The Girl Before   “A pitch-perfect novel of psychological suspense.”—Lee Child   “The pages fly.”—USA Today   “The Girl Before generates a fast pace.”—The New York Times   “Get hooked on this hair-raiser.”—Cosmopolitan   “[A] must-read.”—New York Post   “Almost unbearably suspenseful.”—Joseph Finder   “A masterfully crafted spellbinder.”—Booklist (starred review)   “Superior psychological suspense.”—The Bookseller   “A sexy murder mystery.”—InStyle About the Author


JP Delaney is a pseudonym for a writer who has previously written bestselling fiction under other names. Delaney is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Girl Before, which is being brought to the screen by Academy Award winners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment.