Skip to content
Responsive image
Vendor
Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
Original language
English
Categories

TWELVE SECRETS

Robert Gold

A fast-paced and intricately plotted novel, with layers of intrigue, scandal, and secrets that will keep readers guessing until the very end. With its high octane plot and its idyllic setting where everyone has a secret - it reads like Harlan Coben meets Broadchurch.
Ben Harper is a London-based investigative journalist with a tragic past, who stumbles across a conspiracy around the murder of his brother, decades earlier: a conspiracy that threatens everything he holds dear.

Ben Harper. A successful journalist whose life was changed irrevocably when, still a child himself, his older brother was murdered by two teenage girls. A shocking crime which was splashed across every newspaper in the country.

Clare Harper. Ben's beloved mother was putting her life back together after the killings: so when her body was found on the local train tracks, Ben was shocked. It was ruled a suicide, but Ben never believed that that was true, convinced that something darker was at play.

Abigail Langdon and Josie Fairchild. Two 14-year-old girls who took the lives of Nick Harper and his best friend. Found guilty and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences, they've been out for years, under new identities, which no one knows.

Or so they thought.

When Abigail Langdon is found dead, the police discover a series of letters from Clare Harper in her possession, dating back to just before Clare's alleged suicide. Ben quickly begins to realise that Clare had discovered something explosive, something that someone killed to keep secret, and will kill again to protect.

Rob Gold has co-written three James Patterson titles in 2016 for his Bookshot series. Rob started his career as an intern for CNN in Washington DC, before he moved into the publishing world, where he was the nationwide book buyer for Asda. He now works in sales for a publisher. Living in west Putney, you often might find him running along the riverbank or back through the woods from Barnes. Putney and Barnes serve as great fictional inspirations for the settings of TWELVE SECRETS. This is the first novel in a series featuring Ben Harper.
Available products
Book

Published 2022-03-03 by Little Brown/Sphere

Book

Published 2022-03-03 by Little Brown/Sphere

Comments

Absolutely addictive. An unforgettable and nuanced cast of characters, a claustrophobic setting, and a suspenseful and chilling examination of the dark and destructive power of secrets. You will sleep with your eyes open after reading this one.

I adored Twelve Secrets - it was so much twisty-turny fun and I loved the characters and how their secrets unravelled. It's a fast-paced, utterly gripping thriller - a definite twelve out of ten!

What a tangled web! Brilliantly weaved and then carefully unravelled for the big revelations at the end. A totally gripping read.

A pacey thriller full of twists and turns. You won't be able to put TWELVE SECRETS down until the very end.

A fine debut.

Twelve Secrets contains cliff-hangers and revelations galore. [It] is all plot, plot, plot - and, boy, what a lot it's got.

Twelve Secrets is rather special. So clever, so engrossing, a genuine 'just one more page' kind of book.

Original, unputdownable and a really great read.

A fantastic, plot-twisting debut. Original and addictive.

Twelve Secrets is a smart, satisfying, one-of-a-kind thriller that entertained me from start to finish. It examines the confluence of family loyalties and dark secrets while keeping the plot boiling.

Twelve stars!

Utterly absorbing.

TWELVE SECRETS by Robert Gold is #13 in the UK hardback charts and #9 in Ireland!

Ominous at the beginning, breathless by the end... this is excellent hardcore suspense.

A page-turner with a final revelation that satisfies by being unguessable but retrospectively inevitable.

IT: Longanesi

A tightly-woven thriller that races to a conclusion I didn't see coming.