The incredible thriller you won’t be able to put down from the Top 10 Sunday Times bestselling author A happy family… Alice and Tom Sark seem to have it all – a wonderful marriage, a gorgeous baby, a beautiful home. And now Alice, a journalist, starts investigating a story which could make her career – a serial killer in their town.

A murderer lurking in the shadows… Very quickly though, the murder case takes its toll. Alice and Tom begin fighting all the time. Their baby daughter just won’t stop crying. And sometimes it feels almost as if they’re being followed…

Not everyone will live to tell the tale… The killer has found a new family to target. And the clock is ticking for Alice and Tom to stop their worlds being destroyed forever. What readers are saying about Ready or Not ‘Captured me from the beginning and refused to let go’

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Release date

Audiobook: 14 October 2021