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Nov 11, 2025 3:58 PM

Author:Natalie Daniels

Too Close

*NOW A MAJOR THREE-PART ITV1 DRAMA, STARRING EMILY WATSON AND DENISE GOUGH*

'Too Close is a fantastically compelling, brilliantly scripted whydunnit' Guardian

'A gripping psychological thriller with a Killing Eve twist' Radio Times

'Seriously brilliant - quality writing, three dimensional characters and a sharp wit.' Emma Curtis, author of the bestselling One Little Mistake

*****

Connie has woken up in a psychiatric hospital. She's been accused of a terrible crime, but she says she can't remember a thing.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr Emma Robinson is assigned to the case. Her assessment will determine Connie's fate: prison, life in hospital - or freedom.

Emma hopes the high-profile case will make her career but their sessions quickly become a cat-and-mouse game of manipulation and exploitation.

Emma must get close enough to her patient to uncover the truth. But when dealing with someone as potentially dangerous as Connie, how close is too close?

*****

AUTHORS LOVE TOO CLOSE:

'Wonderfully suffocating . . . Natalie Daniels is one to watch!' Phoebe Morgan

'Subtle, deep and chilling . . . I couldn't put it down.' Rosanna Ley

'A tremendous, powerful, audacious novel - full of scathing insight ; full of raw, compelling feeling.' William Boyd

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

'I truly am astounded with this novel'

'Utterly absorbing, a real page turner'

'Full of twists and turns, enjoyed from beginning'

Reviews

They don't, as they say, write them like this anymore. You will be entertained, informed, thrilled and dazzled. Long may he, and his creations, live on.

—— Jeremy Duns , The Guardian

Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over.

—— Malcolm Gladwell

Deighton's fiction has stood the test of time. His habitually acerbic narrative voice still has much to say to contemporary readers ... Now a fresh generation have the chance to sample Deighton's wares as Penguin republishes many of his books.

—— Vanessa Thorpe , The Observer

The Ipcress File helped change the shape of the espionage thriller ... the prose is still as crisp and fresh as ever ... there is an infectious energy about this book which makes it a joy to read, or re-read.

—— Daily Telegraph

The self-conscious cool of Deighton's writing has dated in the best way possible ... stone-cold Cold War classic.

—— Toby Litt , The Guardian

To read it today is like taking a ride in a time machine, so accurate and astute are its evocations of its era ... Deighton knows how to pinch the ephemera that stick in our souls ... Never not a joy to read. It is also a book that changed the way we see the world.

—— Peter Millar , The Times

The IPCRESS File has lost none of its nerve-tingling fascination ... [and] the pleasure of engaging with a master of his craft.

—— Barry Turner , Daily Mail

A wonderful mixture of the exciting and the amusingly humdrum ... James Bond may be thinner, but so is his dialogue.

—— Jake Kerridge , Daily Telegraph

Deighton is a fearless observer of the deceptive human world.

—— John Gray , New Statesman

A dazzling performance. The verve and energy, the rattle of wit in the dialogue, the side-of-the-mouth comments, the evident pleasure taken in cocking a snook at the British spy story's upper-middle-class tradition - all these made it clear that a writer of remarkable talent in this field had appeared.

—— Julian Symons , New York Times Book Review

Jørn Lier Horst is one of the most brilliantly understated crime novelists writing today

—— Sunday Times

Horst, a former Norwegian police detective, is often compared to Sweden's Henning Mankell for his moody, sweeping crime dramas

—— New York Times

Jørn Lier Horst raises the suspense level to horror proportions

—— Lotta Olsson , Dagens Nyheter, 'Best Crime Novels of 2020'

Expect dark themes and plot twists a plenty

—— Red

Dramatic, mysterious and compelling

—— Vogue

Kept me guessing to the end

—— Sun

With secrets and intrigue, this is a compulsive read

—— Sun on Sunday

Moriarty rocks the drama genre

—— Courier-Mail

Nicola Moriarty belongs to a family tree laded with writers. She more than holds her own

—— The Australian

Nicola's got great pace and snappy dialogue, and I especially like her male characters

—— Liane Moriarty , Sydney Morning Herald

Brilliant! Could not put it down. It's utterly gripping and beautifully written.

—— KATIE FFORDE

Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets.

—— TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop At Nothing

This is a striking first novel, a chilling insight into an oppressive world, where bad thoughts and bad deeds ripple just below the surface, out of sight.

—— Alison Flood, OBSERVER

Chilling and compulsive... a dazzling debut.

—— KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat

Simmering resentments and long-held prejudices boil over in this beautifully realised evocation of small-town America. I I loved it.

—— Kate Riordan, author of The Heatwave

An elegant, mesmerizing debut-Anna Bailey explores festering secrets with a with a sharp, yet tender gaze. This book reads like a whisper in the dark.

—— DANYA KUKAFKA, author of Girl in Snow

Cleverly written , Anna Bailey's debut shines a light on the darker and more oppressive side of small-town society.

—— Independent
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