as addictive as chocolate' Goodreads reviewer, 'A brilliantly constructed YA crime novel - and psychological thriller - that has some incredibly fascinating characters. A stunning read, it questions our relationships - and what we really know about the people closest to us. Does it?ġ3 MINUTES is a gripping psychological thriller about people, fears, manuiplation and the power of the truth. But that doesn't mean they didn't try to kill me. They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you're a teenage girl, it's hard to tell them apart. I don't remember how I ended up in the icy water but I do know this - it wasn't an accident and I wasn't suicidal.

You can pre-order it on Amazon now.A totally gripping twisty psychological thriller from the amazing author of Behind Her Eyes, now a major Netflix series 13 Minutes will be another new direction for her and will be released 18 February as a hardback at £16.99, or £8.99 on Kindle. Her historical crime novels include Mayhem and the rest of the Thomas Bond series, and in fantasy she’s produced The Nowhere Chronicles and The Death House, while her horror contribution is contained in The Dog-Faced Dog books. Sarah Pinborough writes across a variety of genres. The image of the back cover below will give you a good idea – a panicked text conversation presented a bit like an iPhone screen. “They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer, but when you’re a teenage girl, it’s hard to tell them apart,” says one quote in the press release. And then we dive into the world of teenaged girls in a story that mixes together narratives from the point of view of both victims and suspects.Ī quick flick through, and you can see that Sarah Pinborough weaves it together with text messages, social media, psych report transcripts, newspaper articles and more. It’s one of those psychological thrillers that questions how well we really know the people around us, and opens with a dog walker – yes that staple body discoverer – finding a young woman, nearly dead, in a river early one morning. Frankly, I’d want to know why too.ġ3 Minutes is a novel that stands on the border between young adult and adult crime fiction. Now I want to know why,” says the cover of the uncorrected proof of Sarah Pinborough’s latest novel, which has just arrived here at Crime Fiction Lover HQ.

13 Minutes by Sarah Pinborough