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For fans of Matt Haig and Anthony Horowitz a strange compelling and ultimately moving headspinner of a novel John Connolly in which the lives of a disgraced police officer a prolific author and an upstanding citizen are inextricably bound together by a series of mysterious deaths

The Other Side of Night begins with a man named David Asha writing about his biggest regret his sudden separation from his son Elliot In his grief David tells a story

Next we step into the life of Harriet Kealty a police officer trying to clear her name after a lapse of judgment She discovers a curious inscription in a secondhand booka plea Help me hes trying to kill me Who wrote this note Who is he

This note leads Harri to David Asha who was last seen stepping off a cliff Police suspect he couldnt cope after his wifes sudden death Still why would this man jump and leave behind his young son Quickly Harris attention zeroes in on a person she knows all too well

Ben Elmys once the love of her life A surrogate father to Elliot Asha and trusted friend to the Ashas

Ben may also be a murderer

Compulsively readable and thoughtprovoking The Other Side of Night is one of those rare books that youll still be thinking about long after the last page Jenny Blackhurst author of How I Lost You