Retreat

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781408722800

Price: £22

ON SALE: 25th March 2025

Genre: Crime & Mystery / Humour / Mexico / Suspense

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Even for a con artist, Liz is about to take things way, way too far . . .

Liz has a knack for getting wealthy people to trust her – everyone thinks she’s an instant friend. She’s made a life for herself as a serial con artist, but Liz’s many identities and crimes are starting to snap at her heels. So she leaps at the chance to escape to the Mexican coast to decorate a socialite’s new villa, planning to behave herself for once.

But when Liz is mistaken for her absent employer, she just can’t help herself. Drawn into the dazzling seafront community, things take an unexpected turn, until Liz wonders exactly why her doppelganger hasn’t come to claim her glittering life . . .

Spoiler: it’s going to be carnage.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR KRYSTEN RITTER
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Bonfire is a stone-cold stunner - the writing is dazzling
BLAKE CROUCH, author of DARK MATTER
Dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable
RUTH WARE, author of ONE BY ONE
PRAISE FOR RETREAT
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Actress Ritter makes a triumphant fiction debut with this pulse-pounding thriller featuring a sympathetic, broken lead character . . . Pitch-perfect
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
An expertly plotted page-turner
MARIE CLAIRE
A suspenseful, psychologically gripping story
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
A phenomenal, haunting debut
GILLIAN FLYNN, author of GONE GIRL
Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroine . . . An excellent debut
THE TIMES
Smart, sexy and wickedly fun: this is everything you want in a sun-drenched thriller. Ritter can really write - you'll race through Retreat in a day, rooting for its sparky anti-heroine (just try not to drop it in the pool at the jaw-dropping twist)
ELLERY LLOYD, author of THE CLUB
Krysten Ritter made a name for herself by portraying some of the fiercest female characters in pop culture history. It should come as no surprise, then, that her debut novel carries that same level of strength and complexity on every single page
POPSUGAR
Packed with suspense and moves at a cracking pace
DAILY MAIL
Razor-sharp and utterly shocking
WENDY WALKER, author WHAT REMAINS
Multitalented Krysten Ritter is back with a sexy, breakneck thriller that immerses readers in the sometimes-glamorous and sometimes-deadly life of a con artist. Full of surprises and edge-of-your-seat scenes, Retreat is a wild ride
MARY KUBICA, author of SHE'S NOT SORRY