I was gripped until the last pages.' DAILY EXPRESS 'Readers of weary of domestic noir should pick up Our Kind of Cruelty, a splendidly written novel that gives the genre a shot in the arm. may well turn out to be the year's best thriller.' NEW YORK TIMES SUMMER READING ISSUE 'A searing, chilling sliver of perfection. 'A tense intelligent thriller that kept me gripped and guessing until the last page – and thinking long after that. Astonishingly dark and sensationally accomplished.' AJ FINN, author of The Woman in the Window 'As merciless a thriller as I've ever read. I was completely gripped from the first word to the last.' LISA JEWELL 'A propulsive and addictive study of the darkness of obsessive love. And the messages she sends me, the way she calls me, the way she acted last time I saw her – no-one acts like that if they've stopped caring. After what I did, maybe she's right to make me wait. It was just a matter of time until she came back to me. Mike and the games we used to play – that's all in the past now. I'm getting married to the man of my dreams – he looks after me, but he doesn't stifle me. He was too much, too controlling – sometimes, I was afraid of him. Things were difficult with Mike by the end. 'Gripping, unsettling, and brilliantly constructed.' In short I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line' – Gillian Flynn, author of GONE GIRL 'Simply one of the most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. Random House presents the audiobook edition of Our Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall, read by Nick Hendrix and Eleanor Matsuura. If he keeps track of her every move, he’ll know just when to come to her rescue. If Mike watches V closely, he’ll see the signs. It’s all just part of the secret game they used to play.

It doesn’t matter that she says she’s marrying Angus. It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t been returning his e-mails or phone calls. He knows they’ll be blissfully happy together. He’s found the perfect home, the perfect job he’s sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely, life before he met Verity Metcalf. A spellbinding, darkly twisted novel about desire and obsession, and the complicated lines between truth and perception, Our Kind of Cruelty introduces Araminta Hall, a chilling new voice in psychological suspense.