Other women

A Guardian Best Thriller Novel of the YearZoe Ball’s Radio 2 Book Club pick Mesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint's Other Women is a devastating story of obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago. ‘This is a book that will stay with you’ - Ann Cleeves, author of the Vera seriesLondon, 1923.

Like so many single women after the Great War, Beatrice Cade, a thirty-seven-year-old typist, is holding tight to her small scrap of independence and trying to build a life for herself. When charismatic visiting salesman Tom Ryan directs his attention at her, Bea falls hard for him.

But Ryan is married with a child. And his wife, Kate, has worked to create a seemingly happy domestic life.

When Bea is found dead and Tom Ryan is in the frame for her murder, it looks like Kate will do anything to protect her family . . . ‘Compelling, twisty and wonderfully suspenseful’ - Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground