His & Hers

When a woman is found murdered in Blackdown, the picture-perfect Surrey village where Anna Andrews grew up, Anna is sent to cover the story for the television news — returning to a place, and a past, she has spent years trying to escape. Leading the investigation is Detective Chief Inspector Jack Harper, who has his own reasons for wanting Anna to stay away, and his own connections to the dead woman.

Told in alternating "His" and "Hers" chapters, with unsettling interludes from the killer, the novel lets Anna and Jack narrate the same events from opposite sides while each conceals what they know. As more bodies appear and the victims turn out to be linked to Anna's school days, it becomes clear that almost everyone in Blackdown is lying about something, and that the truth is bound up with events long buried.

Alice Feeney builds His & Hers on competing, unreliable perspectives, so that every fact one narrator offers is quietly undercut by the other. The result is a twisty domestic thriller about memory, grudges, and the versions of ourselves we present to the people who think they know us best.