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WHO KILLED MARY

A solve-it-yourself-novel and the international sensation
By Sara Sehdev
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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.... Read More
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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: 300g

Pages: 240

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Sara Sehdev

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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