Karen Perry is the pen name of crime writing duo Paul Perry and Karen Gillece who both live in Ireland. Can You Keep A Secret? is their latest novel and follows Girl Unknown, Only We Know and The Boy That Never Was which was selected for the Simon Mayo Radio 2 book club. All three were Sunday Times bestsellers.
Dramatic, when a group of friends reunite in a spooky Irish stately home, the secrets soon come tumbling out * The Sunday Times Crime Club * Elegantly written and beautifully paced, Can You Keep A Secret? is a fluent, subtle and chilling novel -- Declan Hughes * The Irish Times * A Top Ten Crime Read for Autumn * Red * An engaging thriller * Choice Magazine * Praise for Karen Perry -- - The book is beautifully written, with just the right balance of teasing the reader with clues and hitting them with revelations * Best Crime Fiction of 2015, The Telegraph on The Boy That Never Was * Like Gone Girl . . . It's the most gripping thing I've read for ages * Evening Standard * A truly remarkable novel . . . Written in a captivating, lyrical style and brilliantly structured, the story grips your heart from the first pages and simply never lets go * Jeffery Deaver * This is an intense and subtle story with some wonderfully poetic passages and a character driven plot which becomes more compelling as the sense of momentum gathers and the true version of events is slowly revealed. Gripping stuff * Sunday Mirror * Girl Unknown is one of the most richly satisfying psychological thrillers of 2016, a book that hooks the reader from the first page * The Irish Independent *