It Could Have Been Her
The brand-new thriller from No.1 bestselling author of None of This Is True
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- Pre-Order
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- Expected 2 Jul 2026
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- 149,00 kr
Publisher Description
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED by the brand new thriller from Lisa Jewell, author of the Sunday Times bestselling novels None of This Is True and Don't Let Him In.
'A deliciously twisted gem of a thriller and her best yet' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'A true masterpiece' ANDREA MARA
'Superbly written, entertaining and twisty' LIZ NUGENT
'Dark, intense, brilliant' SHARI LAPENA
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It was the night she almost died.
Jane Trevally, newly divorced and feeling a little lost, agrees to accompany a man she doesn't know to his house in the darkest corner of Hampstead Heath. She's offered a drink, goes in, and then - a scream and the sound of something falling upstairs - Jane senses she's in a bad place. She runs.
Twenty five years later, Jane finds herself outside the same house, this time to return a small white dog who's been found near her home in the country; a dog whose owner has just been reported missing.
A fleeting glimpse of a haunted looking woman through the window sends Jane on a mission to uncover the house's secrets - secrets more terrifying than she could have ever imagined, especially when she realises it could have been her. . .
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Praise for Lisa Jewell:
'A master of suspense' RILEY SAGER
'Lisa Jewell is a STONE COLD GENIUS!' MARIAN KEYES
‘Lisa Jewell is on top-form' RUTH WARE
'A master of her craft’ MICHELLE McDONAGH
'[Lisa Jewell] is a genius' SABINE DURRANT
'I'd literally read the phone book if Lisa Jewell wrote it' ANDREA MARA
'Nobody does it better than Lisa Jewell’ A J FINN
‘Lisa Jewell, the Queen of sick psychopaths’ TAMMY COHEN
'Lisa Jewell books are a must-read for me' JOJO MOYES
Readers love It Could Have Been Her:
'It’s by far Jewell’s creepiest and most unsettling book' 5-star reader review
'An absolute masterpiece' 5-star reader review
'Such a dark and delicious mystery!' 5-star reader review
'Shook me to my core' 5-star reader review
'I devoured this addictive page turner!' 5-star reader review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Jane Trevally, a supporting character in Jewell's 2025 thriller, Don't Let Him In, takes center stage in this chilling gothic suspense tale. At the outset, Jane is twice divorced and living in a ramshackle house in Dorset she can't quite summon the courage to leave. Her life changes after she finds a lost dog that neighbors tell her was last seen with a now missing young woman named Rose White. Jane decides to return the dog to the London home registered on its ID chip. When she arrives, the house—situated in the Vale of Health near Hampstead—reminds her of a haunting incident from her past. Then Stuart Tucker, the man who answers the door, claims not to know Rose, and Jane grows increasingly suspicious. She digs into Rose's background with the help of her youngest stepson, Dexter, and together, they unravel the dark history of the family who occupies the Vale of Health house, dredging up Jane's own buried traumas in the process. With a shrewd command of the narrative, Jewell turns a chance encounter into a disturbing treatise on the past's ability to assert itself in ways both unwelcome and unlikely. The author's fans will relish this pitch-black spine-tingler.
