The Truth About Ruby Cooper

Dark, fearless and compelling - in other words, classic Liz Nugent. Utterly distinctive and unique, this is another unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer. * Jane Casey *I couldn’t stop reading! Absolutely a triumph! * Frieda McFadden *An absolute belter of a book … Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best – Louise KennedyAbsolutely gripping. Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks. * John Marrs *What a read! A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by. – Graham NortonOnly Liz Nugent could have written this book … an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story – Sinéad CrowleyLiz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Ruby Cooper is her most morally complex character yet. Utterly compelling. – Tammy CohenAn utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. I read it as if in a fever – Shari LapenaUtterly compelling and brilliantly imagined … all the way to the last dark twist. – Anthony HorowitzAddictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last. – Diane Jeffrey

Before becoming a full-time writer, Liz Nugent worked in film, theatre and television. Her five novels - Unravelling Oliver, Lying in Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond - have each been Number One bestsellers and she has won five Irish Book Awards, as well as the James Joyce Medal for Literature. She lives in Dublin.