‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘Philby is a skilled and evocative writer’ FINANCIAL TIMESTwo women are found dead.Both had a secret.Both had a choice.‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘Philby is a skilled and evocative writer’ FINANCIAL TIMESTwo women are found dead.Both had a secret.Both had a choice.Artemis leaves the remote Greek island she grew up on to start a shiny new life in 1990s London with her British husband, a successful entrepreneur. Finally, she has escaped the ghosts of her past. Until she is found hanging from the stairs of her beautiful family home. Two decades later, the apparent suicide of an heiress uncannily mirrors Artemis’ mysterious death. And when the ensuing investigation uncovers links to a criminal cartel, National Crime Agency officer Madeleine Farrow begins to pull apart the web of deceit surrounding the two women. THE SECOND WOMAN is a deeply unsettling, brilliantly gripping story of a family legacy built upon lies. Secrets can be suffocating… especially in the wrong hands.–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––‘I’m addicted to the deadly glamour of Charlotte Philby’s novels’ ERIN KELLY‘Gripping’ CRIME MONTHLY‘A page-turning thriller … Philby has created a new sort of spy novel – approaching this world of skulduggery and intrigue from an entirely unique perspective. This is a clever, gripping, unsettling and thoroughly entertaining read’ HOLLY WATT‘Her thrillers have been a game-changer for the spy novel’ DAILY EXPRESS ‘A gripping novel that spans decades and continents’ DAILY MIRROR‘A stylish, heart-racing thriller’ YOU MAGAZINE, MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Brilliant’ BELLA MAGAZINEFollowing on from Part of the Family and A Double Life, this finely worked novel concludes Charlotte Philby’s triptych about the choices women might make when under pressure’ THE TIMES‘I’m addicted to the deadly glamour of Charlotte Philby’s novels’ ERIN KELLY‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY‘Each of Charlotte Philby’s novels bring a thought-provoking new angle to her characters – with old favourites and new intrigues emerging. The Second Woman is a page-turning thriller, but again, Philby has created a new sort of spy novel – approaching this world of skulduggery and intrigue from an entirely unique perspective. This is a clever, gripping, unsettling and thoroughly entertaining read’ HOLLY WATT‘Following on from Part of the Family and A Double Life, this finely worked novel concludes Charlotte Philby’s triptych about the choices women might make when under pressure’ THE TIMES‘Brilliant’ BELLA MAGAZINE‘Gripping’ CRIME MONTHLYCHARLOTTE PHILBY worked for the Independent for eight years as a columnist, editor and reporter, and was shortlisted for the Cudlipp Prize for her investigative journalism at the 2013 Press Awards. A former contributing editor and feature writer at Marie Claire, she has written for the New Statesman, Elle, The Telegraph, Guardian and Sunday Times, and presented documentaries for the BBC World Service and The One Show. Charlotte is the granddaughter of Kim Philby, Britain’s most infamous communist double-agent, the elusive ‘third man’ in the notorious Cambridge spy ring. This is her third novel.Competition: While Justice Sleeps;The Guest List;The Other Passenger;My Sister, the Serial Killer;The Thursday Murder Club;Agent Running in the Field;A Foreign Country. by;Louise Doughty;John Le Carre;Charles Cumming;Robert Galbraith;Ian Rankin;Lee Child;Kate Atkinson;Dominic West;Damian Lewis;Louise Candlish
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