Under Your Skin: The gripping thriller for 2026 with a twist you won't see coming, from the acclaimed author of Lie With Me and Dead Heat

Sabine Durrant

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This morning, I found a body. Soon the police will arrest me for murder. And after that, my life will fall apart.

Gaby Mortimer is the woman who has it all. But everything changes when she finds a body on the common near her home.

Because the evidence keeps leading back to her.

And the police seem sure she's guilty.

Under Your Skin is an unpredictable, exquisitely twisty story, which proves that there are only three rules in life that mean anything:

Assume nothing.Believe no one.Check everything.

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Praise for Under Your Skin: The gripping thriller for 2026 with a twist you won't see coming, from the acclaimed author of Lie With Me and Dead Heat

  • A thrilling whodunnit...will keep you gripped and guessing till the very end. Is it - dare we say - the new Gone Girl? - GraziaWarning: you won't want to put this down...a series of clever twists lead to a stunning ending. - LookUnder Your Skin rapidly unravels into a maelstrom of tension and paranoia, as Durrant draws a disturbing picture of how easy it is for even the most perfect life to implode... if the mark of a good thriller is the compulsion to reread it immediately on finishing, to see if the clues can be spotted second time round, then Under Your Skin has it, in spades. - ObserverYou'll be glued to every page of this pacy, clever and gripping novel. - CloserThis has all the authority of the best novels by Nicci French...We need thriller writers who can reinvigorate the genre and [Durrant] may be able to do just that. - Daily ExpressMore twists than a rollercoaster. - Good HousekeepingPacked with suspense from the offset... guaranteed to keep you guessing right until the very end. - RedTwists and turns through a beautifully controlled plot, hiding nothing yet constantly springing surprises. - The Times

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Sabine Durrant

Sabine Durrant

Sabine Durrant is the author of three psychological thrillers, Under Your Skin, Remember Me This Way and Lie With Me, a Richard & Judy Bookclub selection and Sunday Times paperback bestseller. Her previous novels are Having It and Eating It and The Great Indoors, and two books for teenage girls, Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles and Ooh La La! Connie Pickles. She is a former features editor of the Guardian and a former literary editor at the Sunday Times, and her writing has appeared in many national newspapers and magazines. She lives in south London with her partner and their three children.

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