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  • Published: 4 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529971286
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
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The Lover

  • Mary Watson



The unputdownable new domestic thriller from the instant Irish Times bestselling author of THE CLEANER, about an assistant accused of murdering her boss.

You never know what happens behind closed doors.

Rafe seems like your perfect man – intelligent, charming, attractive.

You think you’ve met the one.

You go back to his house one night and fall asleep in his arms.

When you wake, you reach out for him. But something feels cold beside you.

Rafe is dead – murdered in bed as you lay next to him – and everyone is going to think you did it…

  • Published: 4 June 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529971286
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

Praise for The Lover

Praise for Mary Watson

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A heart-thumping thriller packed with exciting twists.

Daily Mail

Thrilling and otherworldly.

Sunday Times

A masterclass in tension. Plotted like an intricate spider's web, I was glued to the page for the entirety.

Jennie Godfrey, Sunday Times bestselling author of The List of Suspicious Things

Revenge is a dish best served up spotless...The relentless attention to detail is wonderfully claustrophobic.

Sunday Independent

Domestic noir at its finest.

i Paper

A modern fairy tale – beautiful, dark, visceral, truly spellbinding.

Sunday Times and Irish Times No. 1 bestselling author Andrea Mara

Tense from the first page, the pressure builds inexorably. A multifaceted tale of secrets, obsessions and betrayals.

Sam Lloyd, bestselling author of The Memory Wood

Absolutely thrilling. Mary Watson is fast establishing herself as one of the most sophisticated and elegant contemporary domestic thriller writers around.

Edel Coffey

Tight, tense and beautifully written and very human - my favourite kind of thriller.

Kitty Murphy, author of the Dublin Drag Mysteries

The Lover is the kind of book that gets under your skin — in the best way. Mary Watson has delivered another unputdownable thriller!

Jen Bray, author of The Lies Between Us

A hooky, twisty psychological thriller. It kept me turning the pages until the satisfying end.

Fiona Gartland

No one does creeping domestic noir like Mary Watson. Tense and truthful – with a killer ending.

Gill Perdue, author of If I Tell

I was hooked from the first page. Pacy, twisty and full of suspense.

Lisa Hall

I DEVOURED The Lover!

Michelle McDonagh, bestselling author of There’s Something I Have to Tell You

Engrossing and twisty.

Amy Jordan, author of The Dark Hours