Becky Masterman

Alice Einstein - known as "Malice" to her former schoolfriends - likes to tell herself stories. There's a good one she's workshopping about how, despite once being a critically acclaimed literary novelist, she's ended up blocked and uninspired, living in her timid, conflict-averse sister Liesel's spare room. But then Liesel sends her an SOS worthy of a thriller novel. The horror! The horror! Sam is back. Sam, Liesel's wealthy ex-husband, vanished...