Speak of the Devil Speak of the Devil

Speak of the Devil

A Novel

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Publisher Description

Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect one another in this electrifying debut thriller.

New Year’s Eve, 1999.

Seven women are gathered in a hotel room at midnight; a man's head sits in the center of the floor. They all had a motive to kill Jamie Spellman. They all swear they didn't. But in order to protect one another, they have to find out who did.

The ex, who drowns her darkest secret in a hip flask as the woman she loves drifts further away.
The wife, living out her fairytale marriage in a house tucked into woods so thick no one can hear a scream.
The widow, praying to a past she no longer knows whether she can trust.
The teenager, whose wide-eyed crush has trapped her in an unrecognizable future.
The mother figure, battling nature versus nurture under the weight of her own guilt.
The friend, forced to choose sides over and over, until she learns the price of choosing wrong.
And the journalist, who brought them all together—but underestimated how far one of them would go to keep believing the story they’d been told.

Against the ticking clock of a murder investigation, each woman’s secret is brought to light as the connections between them converge to reveal a killer. Marking the debut of an extraordinary new talent, Rose Wilding's Speak of the Devil explores the roles into which women are cast in the lives of terrible men…and the fallout when they refuse to play pretend for one moment longer.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2023
June 13
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
4.9
MB

Customer Reviews

Clogue33 ,

Killer of a debut:)

Pun intended. One sitting read.

Romance213 ,

A suspenseful debut novel!!

I absolutely love this book!! What a brilliant and creative debut from Rose Wilding. She gives us intriguing characters with multi-layered lies and deceptions, and the murder of a man who was despised by everyone. I was a bit reluctant to begin reading because the idea of seven women sitting in a circle staring at a man’s head which was resting on a bible, seemed a bit creepy. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put the book down until the surprising and shocking ending. All the women had personal reasons for hating him, and the detective assigned to the case had to work extra hard as she took their statements and attempted to tie them all together. She wondered who had the most to gain from his death or whose life had he destroyed by his heinous behavior. To really understand each woman, Ms. Wilding goes back in time to when each of them first interacted with the deceased so we get a better understanding of his deviousness. Their common bond was this horrible man and even though many years had gone by, none of them could forget how he made them feel. It certainly took a lot of careful planning by the ringleader of the group to gather the victims together so they could share their stories, one agonizing detail at a time. By the time the truth was out, there was only one thing they could do, but who would do the dirty deed, or would they all become accomplices in the “crime of the century?”

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