by Irvine Welsh
First published 2014
When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach fitness trainer, disarms a crazed gunman on a deserted causeway, she becomes an overnight celebrity. But the gunman is a victim of abuse, and the two men he was chasing are serial pedophiles. The sole witness, the depressed Lena Sorensen, becomes dangerously fixated on Lucy, enrolling as a client at her gym. As the truth unravels, Lucy's heroic image crumbles, and she finds herself trapped with the unhinged Lena, consumed by dark thoughts about the sex lives of Siamese twins.
Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, contemporary, thriller, psychological-thriller
Vibes: dark, emotional, fast-paced, intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: dark-protagonist, enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Miami Beach (Fla.)
468 pages · Hardcover · Jonathan Cape
Content warnings: abuse, child-abuse, pedophilia, sexual-assault