Tell Me How It Ends

Mesmerising and powerful, with an extraordinary sense of time and place and characters you will never forget – Elly GriffithsA stylish and page-turning mystery with dark secrets at its core * Rachel Hore *I loved this elegant and enthralling novel, with its clever shades of All About Eve and A Star is Born. Beneath the surface glamour of early-Sixties showbiz, the devastating personal histories of Delia, Lily and Frank continue to haunt and torment them. Who, if any, will triumph? A spellbinding read * Louise Candlish *Delia, the heroine of V.B. Grey’s gripping and subtle novel is a fabulous study in ambivalence, guilt and yearning, and her portrait of Sixties London … is terrific’ * Elizabeth Buchan *A nuanced and moving portrait of ambition, manipulation, and the emotional havoc created by those unable to escape the past, set against the heady, soon-to-be-lost glamour of early 1960s showbiz * Laura Wilson *Tell Me How It Ends is a gorgeously written novel which evokes the atmosphere and glamour of old Hollywood while including utterly modern themes. Best enjoyed with a dry martini and some jazz on the (vinyl) record player * Sinead Crowley *With clear homages to film noir, this intriguing read will grip you from the start * Woman & Home *Takes elements of classic mystery novels with the glamour and pizzazz of celebrity and turns both on their heads. Captivating * Woman’s Way *With obvious debts to both A Star is Born and All About Eve, this is the full-on book equivalent of a classic Hollywood “woman’s picture” * Sunday Times Crime Club *Clever, generous and imaginative, this is an excellent crime novel * Literary Review *

Inspired by women-centred narratives and the noir thrillers of the 40s and 50s, Grey invites readers into a glamorous, dark world of ambition, manipulation and revenge

V. B. Grey is a television screenwriter whose credits include Jimmy McGovern’s BAFTA award-winning Accused: Tina’s Story as well as over thirty-five episodes of Midsomer Murders, Casualty, Rosemary and Thyme, The Bill and Wycliffe. She has also written non-fiction and been a magazine editor and freelance journalist. Her previous novels, written under the name Isabelle Grey, include two psychological thrillers, The Bad Mother and Out Of Sight as well as four books in the DI Grace Fisher series, *Good Girls Don’t Die, *Shot Through the Heart, The Special Girls and Wrong Way Home. Her first novel written under the name V. B. Grey, Tell Me How It Ends, was published to great acclaim. She grew up in Manchester and now lives in north London.

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