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Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable thriller from the award-winning, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Andrea Mara. Two missing girls. One murder. Is your daughter the victim... or the killer? Is your daughter the victim ... or the killer? 'The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone's child.' Get ready for your new obsession. Pre-order the gripping new psychological thriller from the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Andrea Mara. 'Impossible to put down.' Patricia Cornwell 'Andrea's best book yet.' Liz Nugent The truth will unravel everything... The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood stain on the carpet, a ringing phone - and both girls are nowhere to be seen. The police come and you discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Is one of your daughters trying to kill the other? And that's when you and your best friend begin to unravel what's really going on between the girls. You need to work together to find your daughters, testing your friendship to its limits. And you can't help but wonder- which girl is the killer and which is the victim? Everyone is talking about Such a Nice Girl- 'Once you start reading Such a Nice Girl, you won't be able to stop' Jack Jordan 'An all-round stunning thriller from the queen of the tangled web' Janice Hallett 'A novel that pits its characters against one another with real invention, real force.' A J Finn 'What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It'll leave your head spinning.' John Marrs 'A 'Wow' book - I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.' Patricia Gibney

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Praise for Andrea Mara * : * Andrea Mara is a star. * Lee Child * I was hooked from first page to last as the twists got twistier and all of the characters squirmed while waiting for their darkest secrets to be revealed. May I suggest a new Irish blessing? May you never live in a neighbourhood created by Andrea Mara. * Liz Nugent * Ingenious plotting, brilliantly written, pacy and totally unpredictable, I devoured it over a weekend...Absolutely outstanding! * Claire Douglas * This heart-thumpingly tense thriller may give you nightmares. * Sun * Mara... lays out the pieces of the puzzle with diabolical wit, some good suspense and an unexpected note of sentimentality. * New York Times * This one is an absolute page turner! * Shari Lapena * This sharply observed novel manages to be at once an intricate puzzle and an involving race against time. * Sunday Times * Utterly gripping... You will look hard to find a more searing opening 15 pages of a thriller this year... A sure-fire winner from start to finish. * Irish Independent * A gripping story, beautifully told. Andrea Mara is masterful. * Patricia Cornwell *

Such a Nice Girl is, in my opinion a 'Wow' book - another surefire bestseller for Andrea. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. So many twists and turns! I had no idea who was telling the truth or who was spinning lies. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride while reading it. Andrea is brilliant at plotting. A fantastic premise, executed flawlessly. I can see it as a movie! * Patricia Gibney * What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It’ll leave your head spinning. Mara remains at the top of her game and I’m here for it. * John Marrs * Praise for Andrea Mara * : * Andrea Mara is a star. * Lee Child * I was hooked from first page to last as the twists got twistier and all of the characters squirmed while waiting for their darkest secrets to be revealed. May I suggest a new Irish blessing? May you never live in a neighbourhood created by Andrea Mara. * Liz Nugent * Ingenious plotting, brilliantly written, pacy and totally unpredictable, I devoured it over a weekend...Absolutely outstanding! * Claire Douglas * This heart-thumpingly tense thriller may give you nightmares. * Sun * Mara... lays out the pieces of the puzzle with diabolical wit, some good suspense and an unexpected note of sentimentality. * New York Times * This one is an absolute page turner! * Shari Lapena * This sharply observed novel manages to be at once an intricate puzzle and an involving race against time. * Sunday Times *

Such a Nice Girl is, in my opinion a 'Wow' book - another surefire bestseller for Andrea. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. So many twists and turns! I had no idea who was telling the truth or who was spinning lies. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride while reading it. Andrea is brilliant at plotting. A fantastic premise, executed flawlessly. I can see it as a movie! * Patricia Gibney * 'Utterly gripping from the first to the last page. I devoured it! A masterclass in maternal fear and buried secrets.' * Louise O'Neill * What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It’ll leave your head spinning. Mara remains at the top of her game and I’m here for it. * John Marrs * Praise for Andrea Mara * : * Andrea Mara is a star. * Lee Child * I was hooked from first page to last as the twists got twistier and all of the characters squirmed while waiting for their darkest secrets to be revealed. May I suggest a new Irish blessing? May you never live in a neighbourhood created by Andrea Mara. * Liz Nugent * Ingenious plotting, brilliantly written, pacy and totally unpredictable, I devoured it over a weekend...Absolutely outstanding! * Claire Douglas * This heart-thumpingly tense thriller may give you nightmares. * Sun * Mara... lays out the pieces of the puzzle with diabolical wit, some good suspense and an unexpected note of sentimentality. * New York Times * This one is an absolute page turner! * Shari Lapena *

Impossible to put down – a fast paced thriller with twists and turns around every corner. * Patricia Cornwell * 'I honestly inhaled this, couldn’t wait to get back to it. I think it’s Andrea’s best book yet. The twists just kept coming. An unguessable and most thrilling thriller in the plushest surroundings of south county Dublin. I bloody loved it.' * Liz Nugent * 'Warning: Don’t start Such a Nice Girl if you have anything urgent to do… This dark mystery about two mothers and two daughters is pitch perfect, with great characters, a deviously twisting plot and a pace that breaks the speed limit. An all-round stunning thriller from the queen of the tangled web. Such a fabulous read!' * Janice Hallett * What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It’ll leave your head spinning. Mara remains at the top of her game and I’m here for it. * John Marrs * Andrea Mara is one of a kind, writing with a vice-like grip and plots perfectly designed to speak to our deepest, darkest fears and get under our skin. Clear your calendar: once you start reading Such a Nice Girl, you won't be able to stop. * Jack Jordan * 'I absolutely loved every second of reading this - a complete pleasure from start to finish. Andrea Mara is a genius storyteller. In Such a Nice Girl she puts you right at the heart of a catastrophic situation and turns up the tension until you feel as invested as if the characters' problems were your own. Fast-paced, compelling, twisty and utterly absorbing, this novel will delight her legions of fans.' * Jane Casey * Mothers. Daughters. Killers. Victims. The combinations are deadly in Andrea Mara's clever, clever new thriller, a novel that pits its characters against one another with real invention, real force. It's genuinely involving, too, as an exploration of friendship and parenthood. This is a good one. * A. J. Finn * 'Utterly gripping from the first to the last page. I devoured it! A masterclass in maternal fear and buried secrets.' * Louise O'Neill * Such a Nice Girl is, in my opinion a 'Wow' book - another surefire bestseller for Andrea. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. So many twists and turns! I had no idea who was telling the truth or who was spinning lies. I felt like I was on a roller coaster ride while reading it. Andrea is brilliant at plotting. A fantastic premise, executed flawlessly. I can see it as a movie! * Patricia Gibney * Such A Nice Girl is a very fine addition to Andrea Mara's ongoing excavation of contemporary parental anxieties. The kids are older in this one, but the stakes couldn't be higher. Privilege is fragile, complacency is punished, and what starts as a tiny crack in a perfect facade widens inexorably to a chasm. In Such A Nice Girl, the pages turn themselves, and Andrea Mara gets better and better. * Catherine Kirwan *

Praise for Andrea Mara * : * Andrea Mara is a star. * Lee Child * I was hooked from first page to last as the twists got twistier and all of the characters squirmed while waiting for their darkest secrets to be revealed. May I suggest a new Irish blessing? May you never live in a neighbourhood created by Andrea Mara. * Liz Nugent * Ingenious plotting, brilliantly written, pacy and totally unpredictable, I devoured it over a weekend...Absolutely outstanding! * Claire Douglas * This heart-thumpingly tense thriller may give you nightmares. * Sun * Mara... lays out the pieces of the puzzle with diabolical wit, some good suspense and an unexpected note of sentimentality. * New York Times * This one is an absolute page turner! * Shari Lapena * This sharply observed novel manages to be at once an intricate puzzle and an involving race against time. * Sunday Times * Utterly gripping... You will look hard to find a more searing opening 15 pages of a thriller this year... A sure-fire winner from start to finish. * Irish Independent * A tense, terrifying, guessing game. * Chris Whitaker *

Author Information

Andrea Mara is a number one Sunday Times, Irish Times and Kindle bestselling author, whose books have sold more than one million copies across all formats. The TV adaptation of her 2021 book, All Her Fault, aired in November 2025 to huge critical and audience acclaim, with Sarah Snook (Succession) playing the lead. It became the most-streamed TV show in America during the first week of its release. Her most recent novel, It Should Have Been You, won Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the 2025 An Post Book Awards. It was a No.1 bestseller in Ireland for six weeks, and a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. Her book No One Saw a Thing was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over half a million copies. Andrea lives in Dublin with her husband and three children. You can find Andrea on Instagram @andreamaraauthor

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