Her many faces : a novel / Nicci Cloke.

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"Stunning: so clever, so gripping, so timely." -- Lucy Foley

When four influential members are poisoned at London's most exclusive private club, a young waitress is charged with their murder. Her personal life and upbringing are dissected, and five men begin to question how well they really knew her.

FIVE MEN. FIVE STORIES. BUT ARE THEY READY FOR HERS?

Her father remembers the sweet schoolgirl.

Her childhood friend bonded over a shared fascination with conspiracy theories.

Her lover regrets ever falling for her.

Her lawyer believes she is hiding something.

A journalist is convinced he knows exactly who she is: a cold-blooded killer.

But which is the true face of Katherine Cole? The reality lies somewhere between these very different perspectives.

UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY THAT'S GOT TOP AUTHORS TALKING!

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Publishers Weekly Review

The story of a young woman on trial for multiple murders is told from the perspective of five men who knew her in this twisty suspense novel by Cloke (Close Your Eyes). After four wealthy patrons of an exclusive London club, including a politician and an oil baron, die from apparent poisonings, 22-year-old club waitress Katherine Cole is arrested for their murders. Katherine's seasoned lawyer, Tarun Rao, laments the abundance of incriminating evidence, including his client's time on conspiracy theory message boards and her frequent Google searches of the dead men. Katherine's father, John, wants to believe in her innocence, but her former lover, Conrad Milton, characterizes her as a stalker who ruined his relationship with his fiancée, and her friend, Gabriel, describes how her obsession with conspiracies, including the idea that the 9/11 attacks were faked, came to define her life in recent months. Meanwhile, journalist Max Todd digs into Katherine's background and tries to contact people from her childhood, unearthing details about her past that might recast her role in the murders. Cloke's narrative conceit pays off, with the Rashomon structure allowing readers to piece together their own portraits of Katherine from the fragments provided. This grips from the first page and doesn't let go. Agent: Gráinne Fox, UTA. (July)

Booklist Review

This is how Katherine Cole, on trial for quadruple murder, is known by her father, friend, lawyer, former lover, and a news reporter. Each man shares his perspective on her life as they have seen it, in the past and present: as daddy's little girl, a fantastic headline, an intense lover that pushed boundaries, a bold and sometimes dark school friend, and an untrustworthy client. Cloke (Toxic, 2018) guides readers through a disjointed timeline of Katie's life according to these men, highlighting that a good portion of her issues seems to stem from conspiracy-theory chat forums. Katie and her family suffered the loss of her brother in Afghanistan, and while searching for answers to help her through her grief, she was pulled into her first online forums about 9/11. Then she was pulled into a much darker world, deeper into conspiracies about world events and leaders, which seemingly culminated with the four men she is accused of killing. Thriller enthusiasts who like multiple perspectives and unreliable narrators will enjoy this read.