Finalist for the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Novel
"Good Girl, Bad Girl is a gripping and eerie read. You won't be able
to look away." --Karin Slaughter, #1 international bestselling author
From the bestselling author of The Secrets She Keeps, the writer
Stephen King calls "an absolute master...with heart and soul," a
fiendishly clever suspense novel about a dangerous young woman with a
special ability to know when someone is lying--and the criminal
psychologist who must outwit her to survive.
A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a
terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won't tell anyone her name,
or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen.
She doesn't appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can't be
matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is
living in a secure children's home with a new name, Evie Cormac. When
she initiates a court case demanding the right to be released as an
adult, forensic psychologist Cyrus Haven must determine if Evie is ready
to go free. But she is unlike anyone he's ever met--fascinating and
dangerous in equal measure. Evie knows when someone is lying, and no one
around her is telling the truth.
Meanwhile, Cyrus is called in to investigate the shocking murder of a
high school figure-skating champion, Jodie Sheehan, who dies on a lonely
footpath close to her home. Pretty and popular, Jodie is portrayed by
everyone as the ultimate girl-next-door, but as Cyrus peels back the
layers, a secret life emerges--one that Evie Cormac, the girl with no
past, knows something about. A man haunted by his own tragic history,
Cyrus is caught between the two cases--one girl who needs saving and
another who needs justice. What price will he pay for the truth?
Fiendishly clever, swiftly paced, and emotionally explosive, Good Girl,
Bad Girl is the perfect thrilling summer read from internationally
bestselling author Michael Robotham.
