‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’MAIL ON SUNDAY

FINANCIAL TIMES‘Philby is a skilled and evocative writer’

Artemis leaves the remote Greek island she grew up on to start a shiny new life in 1990s London with her British husband, a successful entrepreneur. Finally, she has escaped the ghosts of her past. Until she is found hanging from the stairs of her beautiful family home. Two decades later, the apparent suicide of an heiress uncannily mirrors Artemis’ mysterious death. And when the ensuing investigation uncovers links to a criminal cartel, National Crime Agency officer Madeleine Farrow begins to pull apart the web of deceit surrounding the two women. THE SECOND WOMAN is a deeply unsettling, brilliantly gripping story of a family legacy built upon lies. Secrets can be suffocating… especially in the wrong hands.

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ERIN KELLY‘I’m addicted to the deadly glamour of Charlotte Philby’s novels’

CRIME MONTHLY‘Gripping’

page-turninga new sort of spy novelclevergrippingunsettlingthoroughly entertainingHOLLY WATT‘A thriller … Philby has created – approaching this world of skulduggery and intrigue from an entirely unique perspective. This is a , , and read’

DAILY EXPRESS‘Her thrillers have been a game-changer for the spy novel’

DAILY MIRROR‘A gripping novel that spans decades and continents’

MAGAZINE,YOUMAIL ON SUNDAY‘A stylish, heart-racing thriller’

BELLA MAGAZINE‘Brilliant’

THE TIMESFollowing on from and , this finely worked novel concludes Charlotte Philby’s triptych about the choices women might make when under pressure’Part of the FamilyA Double Life

Two women are found dead. Both had a secret. Both had a choice.