BELIEVE ME

In this gripping thriller from the bestselling authors of Spare Room and Say Her Name, one woman's mysterious death has led to a lifetime of pain. Can her daughter find out why?

While working on a property dispute, lawyer Gabby is shocked to discover a name more familiar than her own on the title deeds: her mother's. But her mother died twenty-five years ago from an undiagnosed illness at forty, leaving Gabby with more questions about the mysterious Ocean Haven than she can find answers for.

Desperate to uncover the truth of her mother's connection to this house, Gabby begins to investigate, creating tension in her fractured and distant family. So when she begins to uncover the dark and disturbing history of Ocean Haven, is there anyone at all she can turn to?

With her own fortieth birthday fast approaching, Gabby senses the onset of the same unexplained pains her mother experienced all those years ago. Is she being paranoid, or is she about to die in the same way? Or is Ocean Haven hiding a secret about her mother's past - and Gabby's future - that she hasn't yet dared imagine?

Dreda Say Mitchell, alongside her husband Ryan Carter, has published thirteen novels, including Spare Room, their first psychological thriller, which became a #1 UK and US Amazon bestseller. Dreda has written and performed a specially commissioned monologue on the ground- breaking Art 50 on Sky Arts, appeared on television - including BBC Breakfast, Sunday Morning Live, Newsnight and The Review Show, celebrity Pointless. She has presented BBC Radio 4's flagship books programme, Open Book. She has written for newspapers, including the Guardian, and was thrilled to be named one of Britain's 50 Remarkable Women by Lady Geek in association with Nokia. In 2004, she scooped the CWA's John Creasey Dagger Award for best first-time crime novel, the first time a Black British author had been awarded this honour. She is a passionate campaigner and speaker on social issues and the arts and is a trustee of the Royal Literary Fund and an ambassador for The Reading Agency. Her Majesty the Queen awarded Dreda an MBE on her New Year's Honours' List, 2020.