The Brighton Mermaid

**WINNER OF THE PRECIOUS LIFESTYLE MUST READ OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018**

'This will creep its way under your skin and stay there long after you finish the final few gut-twisting chapters. Just brilliant!' Heat
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In the summer of 1993, teenagers Nell and Jude find the body of a young woman on Brighton beach.
When no one claims her, she becomes known as the Brighton Mermaid.

Nell is struggling to move on when the unthinkable happens. Just three weeks after their discovery, Jude disappears.

Twenty-five years on, Nell is determined to find out who the Brighton Mermaid really was - and what happened to her best friend that summer.

But as she edges closer to the truth, she steps further into danger. Someone seems to be watching her every move. And she soon begins to wonder who she can really trust. . .
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'Another brilliant and suspenseful read from a master storyteller' Candis

'With a cracking plot to boot - this brilliant read will hook you from the very start!' Fabulous magazine

'This will creep its way under your skin and stay there long after you finish the final few gut-twisting chapters. . . brilliant!' Heat

'Tense and emotional' My Weekly

'Thrilling!' Take a Break

'Koomson is the queen of the big reveal, and takes her time slowly building the tension in this truly gripping read' The Sun

'Has all the classic elements of the big beach novel. It adds extra depths to the whodunit in terms of characterisation and emotional impact, and races to a conclusion that had me turning the pages as if they were on fire. . .' Viva magazine

'A hot read!' Woman magazine

'Just when you think you know what happened and you have your suspects a turn of the page will prove you wrong. This novel is a fast paced and brilliant read' Woman's Way

'The novel simmers with tension and an undercurrent of darkness' Daily Express

'A breathtakingly brilliant, twisty belter of a book and you need to read it!!' Miranda Dickinson, author of Somewhere Beyond The Sea

'Fast-paced, dark and simmering - can't recommend this novel enough' Caroline Smailes, author ofThe Drowning of Arthur Braxton