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The Girl In Cell A

A tense and gripping suspense novel guaranteed to surprise and thrill - 'the twist will floor...

Vaseem Khan

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Hodder Paperback
30 July 2026
A TIMES THRILLER OF THE YEAR 2025 'A twist you'll never guess' ALEX MICHAELIDES 'Thrilling, thought-provoking, suspenseful' S.A. COSBY

THE WORLD KNOWS HER AS THE GIRL IN CELL A.

Convicted of murder at seventeen, infamous killer and true crime celebrity Orianna Negi has always maintained her innocence.

BUT IF SHE DIDN'T KILL GIDEON WYCLERC...

Orianna has a blind spot over that fateful day: she can't remember what happened. Forensic psychologist Annie Ledet is tasked with unlocking the truth.

....THEN WHO DID?

Orianna grew up in Eden Falls, ruled by the insular Wyclerc dynasty and its ruthless patriarch , Amos. As their sessions progress, Annie reaches into Orianna's past to a shattering realisation....

Scandal. Sex. Power. Race. And murder. Between guilt and innocence lies a fallen Eden.

'Masterful. A beautifully written, twisting psychological thriller' CHRIS WHITAKER 'Both epic family tale and riveting psychological thriller, The Girl in Cell A is an utterly absorbing story with an ending that will leave you reeling' SHARI LAPENA 'A fabulous thriller where small-town America and the sins of its inhabitants make for a wonderful page-turner' STEVE CAVANAGH 'Full of unexpected, mind-bending twists, The Girl in Cell A explores memory, truth, and lies in a small American mining town .. tense and surprising'

NITA PROSE 'A compelling, pacy, multi-layered mystery that shows us the most dangerous secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves' ERIN KELLY 'Vaseem Khan's first thriller is a teasing, testing exercise in unreliable narration' SUNDAY TIMES 'An intoxicating tale of sex, power and corruption, we ate this up' CRIME MONTHLY

'The twist will floor you' i PAPER
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Imprint:   Hodder Paperback
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm, 
ISBN:   9781399707749
ISBN 10:   1399707744
Pages:   592
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Vaseem Khan is the author of several award-winning crime series including the Baby Ganesh Agency adventures, set in modern Mumbai, and the Malabar House historical crime novels, set in 1950s Bombay. His first book, The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra, was selected by the Sunday Times as one of the 40 best crime novels published in 2015-2020, and has been translated into 17 languages. Midnight at Malabar House, the first in the Malabar House series, won the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger. Vaseem has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, the Fingerprint Award for Historical Crime Novel of the Year for City of Destruction, the fifth in the Malabar House series. Vaseem is also the author of The Girl in Cell A, a psychological thriller set in small town America, and Quantum of Menace, the first in a series featuring Q from the world of James Bond.

Reviews for The Girl In Cell A: A tense and gripping suspense novel guaranteed to surprise and thrill - 'the twist will floor you' says i newspaper

This is a sprawling, gothic tale of a family driven by lies and incestuous longings, sporting some spectacular final twists * Mail on Sunday * Two narratives are interwoven in this mix of whodunnit, psychological case study and toxic family saga . . . Khan's first thriller is a teasing, testing exercise in unreliable narration * A Times Thriller of the Year * Vaseem Khan's first thriller is a teasing, testing exercise in unreliable narration * Sunday Times * THE GIRL IN CELL A weaves gracefully between past and present to provide an insight into American small town life which is both epic and razor-sharp. Khan's Eden Falls is so claustrophobic, so vivid, you'll never forget your time in this town -- Abigail Dean A fabulous thriller where small-town America and the sins of its inhabitants make for a wonderful page-turner -- Steve Cavanaugh Masterful. A beautifully written, twisting psychological thriller -- Chris Whitaker An utterly captivating, multi-faceted psychological thriller that keeps you turning the pages. A real triumph! -- B.A. Paris A superb psychological thriller. What a mammoth task Vaseem has taken on and the fact that he pulls it off is astonishing. A terrific reading experience with a total shocker of an ending -- Liz Nugent A triumphantly mind-bending puzzlebox of a book that will have you questioning everything -- Ruth Ware Masterful. So clever I think it melted my brain. This clever, intense, beautifully written mystery about family, loyalty and lies had me frantically turning the pages and suspecting everyone. Impossible to put down -- C.L. Taylor A compelling, pacy, multi-layered mystery that shows us the most dangerous secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves -- Erin Kelly Both epic family tale and riveting psychological thriller, THE GIRL IN CELL A is an utterly absorbing story with an ending that will leave you reeling -- Shari Lapena A triumph. A gripping thriller, a saga of a family and its terrifying secrets and a tale of redemption to break your heart -- Nicci French Vaseem Khan turns his razor sharp intellect away from the Indian subcontinent to the backroads of rural America, but the results are the same. A thrilling, thought-provoking, suspenseful novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat -- S.A. Cosby Epic, ingenious storytelling and a brilliantly realised small town setting where everyone is a suspect. A fantastic thriller -- TM Logan Impeccably crafted, with compelling characters and a brilliantly portrayed location, THE GIRL IN CELL A is a gripping thriller that twists in ways that you will never expect. Surprising and totally addictive! -- Sam Blake Full of unexpected, mind-bending twists, THE GIRL IN CELL A explores memory, truth, and lies in a small American mining town. If you liked ANNA O, you'll marvel at this tense and surprising novel -- Nita Prose Blade-sharp, corkscrew-twisty, a thriller that gleams like metal. But THE GIRL IN CELL A cuts deeper than that: it's a novel bold enough to peer through the windows of small-town homes, behind the doors of psychiatric examination rooms, and, ultimately, into the dark soul of a community you won't soon forget -- A.J Finn An epic crime novel with an evocative setting, a cast of characters who feel real and a multitude of twists and turns. If you liked The Silent Patient or All The Colours of the Dark, you'll love this -- Mark Edwards Kept me up at night. Compelling, intriguing and deeply satisfying, with an ending that will stay with you, Vaseem Khan takes the unreliable narrator to a whole new level. A brilliant fever dream of a book -- Chris Hammer An intoxicating tale of sex, power and corruption, we ate this up * Crime Monthly * The twist will floor you * i Paper *


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