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WHO KILLED MARY
A solve-it-yourself-novel and the international sensation
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Mary Slater is dead, people. She died in the early hours of today. The police aren't interested. They are saying no foul play. Which is totally absurd as it was clearly death by a thousand cuts. A thousand men. Everyone seems to have played a part....
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Mary Slater is dead, people. She died in the early hours of today.
The police aren't interested. They are saying no foul play. Which is totally absurd as it was clearly death by a thousand cuts. A thousand men. Everyone seems to have played a part. We saw the men. We all did. But still there is no suspect. Only a young dead female and her 1 million followers. No one wants to talk about it in real life. But everyone is talking about it online. Including you.
You don't just recognise her, you know her, as well as you know anyone. It's Mary. Your Mary. The Mary who talked to you when no one else did through a phone screen as she went about her daily life. You want to avenge Mary and all the other Marys that have come before her. You want to catch the killer before they do it again. You saw Mary online for who she really was. Not an angry unhinged woman, a woman who needed saving. Like all of us. And these men, they are all guilty in their own way but only one of them actually killed her.
Welcome, dear amateur sleuth, to Who Killed Mary?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781846019258
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 October 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: BRAZEN
Illustration: b/w line illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Sara Sehdev is a writer who also works in film as a producer and her features include multi-BAFTA-nominated BOILING POINT starring Stephen Graham. She has also written a book called A QUEEN OF SWORDS.
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