Erin Kelly and Gillian Mcallister In Conversation

Join us for a thrilling evening with Erin Kelly and Gillian McAllister as they celebrate the release of their new novels, The House of Mirrors and the paperback edition of Just Another Missing Person.

Erin and Gillian will chat about their books before giving you the chance to ask them questions and get your books signed.

The House of Mirrors – Erin Kelly

One of them has killed before.
One of them will kill again.

In the sweltering summer of 1997, straight-laced, straight-A student Karen met Biba - a bohemian and impossibly glamorous aspiring actress. A few months later, two people were dead and another had been sent to prison.

Having stood by Rex as he served his sentence, Karen is now married to him with a daughter, Alice, who runs a vintage clothing company in London. They're a normal family, as long as they don't talk about the past, never mention the name Biba, and ignore Alice's flashes of dark, dangerous fury.

Karen has kept what really happened that summer of '97 hidden deep inside her. Alice is keeping secrets of her own. But when anonymous notes begin to arrive at Alice's shop, it seems the past is about to catch up with them all...

Just Another Missing Person – Gillian McAllister

Olivia. 22 years old. Last seen on CCTV, entering a dead-end alley.

And not coming back out again.

Missing for one day and counting . .

Julia is the detective heading up the case. She knows what to expect. A desperate family, a ticking clock, and long hours away from her husband and daughter. But Julia has no idea how close to home it's going to get.

Because there's a man out there. And his weapon isn't a gun, or a knife: it's a secret. Her worst one. He tells her that her family's safety depends on one thing: Julia must NOT find out what happened to Olivia - and must frame somebody else for her murder . . .

What would you do?

Erin Kelly is one of the most well respected and critically acclaimed voices in the crime writing community. She is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poison Treewhich became a major ITV drama and was a Richard & Judy Summer Read in 2011.Her most recent novel, The Skeleton Key, was the Waterstones Thriller of the Month in September 2023, has been optioned for TV, won the Genre-busting Book of the Year category at the Capital Crime Fingerprint Awards 2023, and was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller and a Times number one bestseller in paperback.

Gillian McAllister is the New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Wrong Place Wrong Time, Just Another Missing Person, Everything but the Truth, The Choice, The Good Sister, The Evidence Against You, How to Disappear, and the Richard & Judy Book Club pick That Night. She graduated with an English degree before working as a lawyer. She lives in Birmingham, England, where she now writes full-time. She is also the creator and co-host of the popular Honest Authors podcast. 

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