A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Fiction Novel of 2024 and Best Psychological Thriller for January • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of Jan–Jun 2024 • A Tertulia Best New Crime and Thriller Book This Winter • A Paste Most Anticipated Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 Two young women vanish in a seaside town. At the cliff’s edge, nobody is who they seem. Desperate to escape the ghosts of his failed marriage, Cole upends his life. He leaves London behind for a remote stretch of coast, relishing the respite from the noise, drama, and relentless careerism that curdled his relationship and mental health. Leonora has made the same move for similar reasons. She’s living a short walk from Cole’s seaside cottage, preparing for her latest art exhibition. Though Cole still can’t figure out what went wrong with his marriage, and Leonora is having trouble acclimating to the hostile landscape, the pair forges a connection on the eroding bluff they call home. Then, two young women activists raising awareness about gendered violence disappear while passing through. Cole and Leonora find themselves in the middle of a police investigation and the resulting media firestorm when the world learns of what happened. And as the tension escalates alongside the search for the missing women, they quickly realize that they don’t know each other that well after all. From the critically acclaimed author of Our Kind of Cruelty and Imperfect Women , comes an urgent psychological thriller about gender, power, and how both are captured in our contemporary media environment. Unexpected and twisty from its first page to its last, One of the Good Guys asks: If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? A CrimeReads Most Anticipated Fiction Novel of 2024 and Best Psychological Thriller for January • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of Jan–Jun 2024 • A Tertulia Best New Crime and Thriller Book This Winter • A Paste Most Anticipated Mystery and Thriller Book of 2024 “Addictive and sharply realized . . . I became absolutely obsessed from the opening page.” ―Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Razor-sharp, spine-tinglingly convincing and unputdownable. I binged this in three sittings.” ― Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True “ Girl with the Dragon Tattoo meets Gone Girl .” ―KAMR “Will keep readers enthralled . . . In the vein of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl , this is a psychological thriller that will have readers on the edge of their seats, pushing them to ponder difficult questions.” ―Linsey Milillo, Library Journal “A fascinating read.” ― Kirkus Reviews “Thought-provoking . . . Fans of Megan Abbott will want to check this out.” ― Publishers Weekly “A compulsive read that we can’t put down. . . . Fear, control and determining the truth of situations is what we think about throughout this gripping. . . . An excellent choice for a book club.” ―Book Reporter “Riveting.” ― Star Tribune “ One of the Good Guys is a mind-bending tour de force. Araminta Hall has always been one of my favorite writers, but what she has done here is groundbreaking. This thriller is shocking, twisted, dark, and absolutely on point.” ―Samantha Downing, bestselling author of My Lovely Wife “This twisty tale will keep you on your toes.” ―Crime Monthly “An absolutely thrilling tale, full of breathless cliffside terror and fresh feminist theory masked in tight, propulsive mystery. I devoured this book.” ―Lisa Taddeo journalist and Pushcart Prize–winning author of Three Women and Animal “I love a good unreliable narrator story, and [ One of the Good Guys ] is among the best I’ve read in ages . . . Hall is fantastically good at upending expectations and pulling the wool over her readers’ eyes, so I can’t say much more without giving things away―but this exploration of female rage isn’t what you think it’s going to be.” ―Alison Flood, Guardian “ One of the Good Guys is definitely one of the good ones.” ―Val McDermid, author of The Wire in the Blood “ One of the Good Guys goes nowhere that readers will expect. [Araminta Hall] supplies no easy answers for readers other than to the question of what novel would inspire a great discussion at their next book club.” ―Nell Beram, Shelf Awareness “A dark, original and thought-provoking read. This book will hook you from the first page and keep you thinking long after the last.” ―Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Darker, Rock Paper Scissors, and Sometimes I Lie “Neatly plotted.” ―Literary Review "The best book I've read in a long time. One of the Good Guys is a dark, whip-smart thriller that's also laugh-out-loud funny. Hall answers #metoo and the masculinity crisis with nuance and insight. A must read." ―Sarah Langan, award-winning author of Good Neighbors “An intriguing mix of psychological thriller and contemporary feminist fable.” ―Daily