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A Darker Side of Paradise

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A brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of A Quiet Belief in Angels Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman—sent off to sleep with a... Read More
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A Darker Side of Paradise

The latest compulsive thriller from the award winning, internationally bestselling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS

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A brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of A Quiet Belief in Angels

Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before.

It will not be her last.

Her first murder case is a young woman—sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an eight-hundred year old book: Dante's Divine Comedy.

So begins an investigation that will haunt her for the rest of her life, and lead Rachel on a descent into obsession that upends everything she thought she knew about justice.

As the killings unfold over the decades, Rachel's obsession will drive her from small-town America through the streets of NYC, to a revelation that will cost her everything.

Because every case she thought she solved was a lie.

And the truth is more dangerous than she could have imagined.

PRAISE FOR R.J. ELLORY

'Beautiful and haunting... A tour de force' MICHAEL CONNELLY

'Beautifully written novels that are also great mysteries' JAMES PATTERSON

'A uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer' ALAN FURST

'In the top flight of crime writing' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

'The master of the genre' CLIVE CUSSLER

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781398724013

Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Orion

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 38.0mm

Width: 154.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 620g

Pages: 496

About the Author

R.J. Ellory is a critically acclaimed author whose novels include the bestselling A Quiet Belief in Angels, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club selection and won the Nouvel Observateur Crime Fiction Prize.

Ellory's novels have been translated into twenty-six languages, and he has won the USA Excellence Award for Best Mystery, the Strand Magazine Best Thriller 2009, the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year for A Simple Act of Violence, the St Maur Prize, the Avignon Readers' Prize, the Livre de Poche Award and the Quebec Laureat. He has been shortlisted for a further thirteen awards in numerous countries, including four Daggers from the UK Crime Writers' Association.

To find out more visit www.rjellory.com or follow him on X @rjellory

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