The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels: the Bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels is a mystery novel by the bestselling author of The Appeal and The Twyford Code. It is a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a Sunday Times bestseller.

Key details

• Richard & Judy Book Club pick
• Sunday Times bestseller
• Selected as a best book of the year by the Guardian and the Observer
• Selected as a book of the year by the New York Times
• Selected as a best summer book of the year by the Telegraph

Synopsis

The book invites you to open a safe deposit box containing research documents for a true-crime project, read through the material, and decide what to do next: destroy it, or take it to the police.

It revisits the widely known case of the Alperton Angels, a cult linked to a teenage girl and her newborn baby, and the events that followed when the police became involved. Nearly two decades later, true-crime writer Amanda Bailey begins work on a book about the Angels as the baby turns eighteen and may be available for interview, while rival author Oliver Menzies pursues the same lead. As the two are pushed into working together, they discover that accepted accounts of the Angels may be wrong, and that the story is not finished.

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