Reckless Girls
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The gripping new thriller and instant New York Times bestseller, perfect for escapist reading!
The holiday of your dreams…
When Lux and Nico get the chance to sail to a remote island off the coast of Hawaii, they’re thrilled. It’s the trip they’ve been dreaming of their whole lives.
A tropical paradise…
Despite a dark history of shipwrecks and murder, the island is beautiful. But they’re not alone – another group is already there.
No one will hear your screams…
It’s not long before cracks emerge, and someone goes missing. Then a body surfaces, and Lux starts to wonder if any of them are going to make it back to shore alive…
‘A thriller worth staying up all night to finish’ Julie Clark, author of The Flight
‘Tantalises from page one’ Katherine St. John, author of The Lion's Den
‘You’ll tear breathlessly through the pages’ Kate White, author of Have You Seen Me?
Reviews
‘A thriller worth staying up all night to finish’ Julie Clark, author of The Flight
‘Tantalises from page one’ Katherine St. John, author of The Lion's Den
‘You’ll tear breathlessly through the pages’ Kate White, author of Have You Seen Me?
Praise for Rachel Hawkins:
‘I was completely blown away…compulsive, irresistible’ Samantha Downing, bestselling author of My Lovely Wife
‘Kept me on the edge of my seat from the first page to the very last’ bestselling author Megan Miranda
‘Sharp, smart, tricky and fast-paced’ Kelly Harms, author of The Overdue Life of Amy Byler
‘Lightening paced, twisty, and great fun’ Jessica Knoll, bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive
About the author
Rachel Hawkins is the New York Times bestselling author of multiple books for young readers, and her work has been translated in over a dozen countries. She studied gender and sexuality in Victorian literature at Auburn University and currently lives in Alabama with her husband and son.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The hope of Lux McAllister, the protagonist of this diabolically plotted nail-biter from bestseller Hawkins (The Wife Upstairs), that sailing the Pacific with her hot new boyfriend, Nico Johannsen, will help put a tragic past behind her stalls in Maui, along with Nico's damaged boat. Then a pair of strangers, college besties Amma and Brittany, offer the couple a huge sum that covers the boat's repair to take them to remote, notorious Meroe Island. Insecure Lux accurately anticipates sexual tension among the four 20-somethings during the voyage; what she doesn't expect is to arrive at their middle-of-nowhere destination to find a luxury catamaran already anchored off the beach, GQ-ready twosome Jake and Eliza on deck. Later, while exploring the island, Lux is alarmed to stumble on a skull clearly too fresh to be from the 1821 shipwreck that gave Meroe its name. As tempers fray and tensions mount, Lux belatedly realizes she has unsuspectingly ventured into treacherous waters indeed. Though several of the startling twists leading up to a killer climax are as arbitrary as those in Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None (itself among Hawkins's apparent inspirations), this thriller still makes for dangerously addictive reading.
