by Mark Edwards
First published 2016
Sophie Greenwood has wanted this job her whole life. On her first day, a strange encounter shakes her badly, stirring up memories she has spent years pushing down. She starts to wonder if taking the position was a serious error in judgment. The office itself feels off. Her assistant is young, eager, and hiding something. And nobody will give her a straight answer about what happened to the person who held the job before her. Then the trouble follows Sophie home. Her husband and daughter get pulled in, and the stakes stop being about career and start being about survival. Sophie carries old secrets, the kind that make a person vulnerable, and someone seems to know exactly what they are. Mark Edwards, author of Follow You Home and The Magpies, builds pressure steadily from both directions, the professional and the personal, until Sophie has no safe ground left. To stay alive, she has to face what she has been running from. The Devil's Work is a psychological thriller about how the past does not stay buried, especially when someone is actively digging.
Genres: suspense, crime, adult-fiction, thriller, psychological-thriller, mystery-thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, fast-paced, psychological, suspenseful, tension-filled
Tropes: forced-proximity, past-comes-back, secrets-and-lies, unreliable-narrator
Period: 21st-century
374 pages · Paperback · Thomas & Mercer
Content warnings: abuse, death