Death in Her Hands

From one of our most provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspense

While on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across a chilling handwritten note. Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body.

Shaky even on her best days, Vesta is also alone, and new to the area, having moved here after the death of her husband. Her brooding about the note grows quickly into a full-blown obsession — who was Magda and how did she meet her fate?

A triumphant blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both guide us closer to the truth and keep us at bay from it. Once again, we are in the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, only this time the stakes have never been higher.

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxationcomes this razor-sharp, chilling and darkly hilarious novel about the stories we tell ourselves and how we strive to obscure the truth.

'This is a story about what might happen when a woman takes charge... A glorious visceral mystery' — The Times

'A fine line between shocking realism and the absurd' — New Statesman

'A brilliant off-kilter detective story' — Evening Standard

ISBN: 9781529112344 | Published: 20 July 2021 | Paperback | 272 pages