Paper Cut
The gripping SUNDAY TIMES thriller of the month about cults and true crime
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4.0 • 6 Ratings
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- £0.99
Publisher Description
A STYLE MUST-READ BOOK FOR 2026 - the enthralling thriller about cults, true crime and toxic mothers
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'Impeccable' Sunday Times
'Darkly addictive' Katy Hays
'Fiction with a true-crime edge' Janice Hallett
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EVERYBODY KNOWS THE STORY. NOBODY KNOWS THE TRUTH...
Lucy Golden is a true-crime icon, infamous for killing someone as a teenager while escaping a California cult.
Twenty years later, still coasting on the success of the memoir she wrote after her acquittal, Lucy knows that her story is always just one news cycle away from obscurity, even as online trolls ask questions that threaten to tear her life apart.
So when a hot-shot documentary filmmaker decides to make her case his next subject, Lucy sees a chance to silence her doubters once and for all.
But just how far will Lucy go to protect the story she's been telling - and selling - all along?
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Readers are loving Paper Cut
'WOW! What a stunning debut!'
'I'd watch the hell out of the Netflix adaptation'
'Psychological suspense, cult horror, and celebrity noir'
'Twisted, fast-paced and totally engrossing'
'I read this in one sitting'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The lie on which a woman has built her brand—and her life—threatens to implode in Taff's haunting debut. Conflicting pressures converge on Los Angeles author Lucy Golden as the 20th anniversary of the murder trial that made her famous approaches. Then 16 years old, and already in the spotlight as the daughter of celebrity photographer Diana Golden, Lucy escaped a murderous California cult and confessed to killing its leader. Months after her acquittal, she published Rattlesnake, asearing memoir of her experience that's now considered a feminist classic. On the one hand, Lucy craves the attention that an anniversary edition of Rattlesnake coupled with a proposed documentary by hunky filmmaker Isaac Coleman could generate. On the other, she's terrified of the skeletons Isaac promises to unearth if she puts herself in front of the camera. Ultimately, she agrees to participate. Once filming gets underway, however, her increasingly triggering days of shooting intertwine with hypervivid memories of that traumatic summer to reveal dark truths about her relationship with her mother. As tightly coiled as a rattlesnake about to strike, Taff's screen-ready exploration of art, celebrity, and exploitation makes for stay-up-all-night reading. It's a knockout.
