Keep Him Close

'A SUSPENSEFUL MYSTERY...DEEPLY MOVING AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY AFFECTING' ALEX MICHAELIDES, AUTHOR OF THE SILENT PATIENT

PRAISE FOR KEEP HIM CLOSE:
'A tense drama' Sunday Times
'A beautiful and heart-breaking story that I can't stop thinking about. ONE SON DIED.

Alice's son is dead.

Keep Him Close was a magnetic, all-consuming read. A heart-breaking suspense which deals with love in all its forms, however it is expressed.

A moving account of family relationships and mainly low-level but devastating criminality

Keep Him Close isn't just a suspenseful mystery about two women's determination to discover the truth about the night that left one of their sons dead. It's also a really well-written, deeply moving and psychologically affecting study of motherhood and heartbreak. Highly recommended.

Powerfully written and packs a real emotional punch.

A gripping, dark domestic drama with motherhood at its heart. Beautifully written and emotionally charged, the characters leaped off the page and stayed with me.

A beautiful and heart-breaking story that I can’t stop thinking about. Simply stunning.

This is domestic noir as it's meant to be done; riveting and beautifully written.

Intriguing, heartbreaking and deftly drawn, Keep Him Close is a mystery novel with a beautiful character study at its heart.

A beautifully written novel with a cast of richly drawn characters, and a plot that grows ever more menacing as it twists to its powerful, unexpected conclusion.

Keep Him Close is a compelling and deftly plotted read, exploring complex dynamics with sensitivity and empathy.

Emily Koch is an award-winning journalist and author of two novels, If I Die Before I Wake and Keep Him Close. Her books have been shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award, won France's Prix du Bureau des Lecteurs Folio Policier, longlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award, and been selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Waterstones said her second novel 'cements Koch's place as one of the most exciting new crime writers of our day.' She lives in Bristol.