Such a Nice Girl | Andrea Mara

Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable thriller from the award-winning, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Andrea Mara.

Two missing girls. One murder. Is your daughter the victim... or the killer?

'The thing is, we always believe the best of our own kids. What mother thinks her own daughter will do something terrible? But every bad deed is carried out by a person who was once someone's child.'

Everyone has secrets. Even your daughter... The morning after a glamorous, luxury wedding, you and your best friend go to wake your twenty-four-year-old daughters. You open the door to their shared room in the pool-house and find a lamp smashed on the floor, a blood stain on the carpet, a ringing phone - and both girls are nowhere to be seen. The police come and you discover something shocking. Something inexplicable. Is one of your daughters trying to kill the other? And that's when you and your best friend begin to unravel what's really going on between the girls. You need to work together to find your daughters, testing your friendship to its limits. And you can't help but wonder- which girl is the killer and which is the victim?

Everyone is talking about Andrea Mara- 'Impossible to put down'. Chris Whitaker

'Andrea Mara is a star.' Lee Child

'Probably the most suspenseful book I will read all year.' Liz Nugent

'One of the most tense thrillers of the year so far.' John Marrs

'I was hooked by the end of chapter one.' Jane Casey

Impossible to put down - a fast paced thriller with twists and turns around every corner. * Patricia Cornwell *'I honestly inhaled this, couldn't wait to get back to it. I think it's Andrea's best book yet. The twists just kept coming. An unguessable and most thrilling thriller in the plushest surroundings of south county Dublin. I bloody loved it.' * Liz Nugent *Riveting...twisty and so full of secrets that you'll be dying to discover the truth! * Shari Lapena *'Warning: Don't start Such a Nice Girl if you have anything urgent to do... This dark mystery about two mothers and two daughters is pitch perfect, with great characters, a deviously twisting plot and a pace that breaks the speed limit. An all-round stunning thriller from the queen of the tangled web. Such a fabulous read!' * Janice Hallett *Buckle up, you're in for one hell of a ride with this fiendishly clever, insidiously sinister novel that had me in its grip from page one. Mara is the undisputed queen of the psychological thriller and the queen of the plot twist. Her books should come with a warning - Reader Beware: Once you start, you won't be able to stop. The twists, turns and blindsides are superb. It's got everything. Sit back and enjoy - you are in the hands of a master. * Edel Coffey *What a fantastic novel. A masterclass in twists and turns. It'll leave your head spinning. Mara remains at the top of her game and I'm here for it. * John Marrs *Andrea Mara is one of a kind, writing with a vice-like grip and plots perfectly designed to speak to our deepest, darkest fears and get under our skin. Clear your calendar: once you start reading Such a Nice Girl, you won't be able to stop. * Jack Jordan *'I absolutely loved every second of reading this - a complete pleasure from start to finish. Andrea Mara is a genius storyteller. In Such a Nice Girl she puts you right at the heart of a catastrophic situation and turns up the tension until you feel as invested as if the characters' problems were your own. Fast-paced, compelling, twisty and utterly absorbing, this novel will delight her legions of fans.' * Jane Casey *Such a Nice Girl is a masterful delve into human connections, friendship and familial, while delivering an unputdownable, intricately plotted, edge of your seat, twisty thriller. Gripping and oh so satisfying. * Mary Watson *Mothers. Daughters. Killers. Victims. The combinations are deadly in Andrea Mara's clever, clever new thriller, a novel that pits its characters against one another with real invention, real force. It's genuinely involving, too, as an exploration of friendship and parenthood. This is a good one. * A. J. Finn *

Andrea Mara is a number one Sunday Times, Irish Times and Kindle bestselling author, whose books have sold more than one million copies across all formats. The TV adaptation of her 2021 book, All Her Fault, aired in November 2025 to huge critical and audience acclaim, with Sarah Snook (Succession) playing the lead. It became the most-streamed TV show in America during the first week of its release. Her most recent novel, It Should Have Been You, won Irish Crime Novel of the Year at the 2025 An Post Book Awards. It was a No.1 bestseller in Ireland for six weeks, and a Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. Her book No One Saw a Thing was a Sunday Times number one bestseller and has sold over half a million copies. Andrea lives in Dublin with her husband and three children. You can find Andrea on Instagram @andreamaraauthor