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The Next Girl
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  • Published: 13 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405961615
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $28.00

The Next Girl

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Paperback
13 May 2025
EBook
9 May 2024
Audiobook
9 May 2024
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From a New York Times bestselling author comes a nail-biting and emotional new thriller, for fans of Gillian Flynn and Abigail Dean.

I guess you're probably wondering about the next girl. Because there's always another girl, right? A girl waiting to be taken. To be swept away. I'll tell you about her.

It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun lost her sister, and she's been searching ever since: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. Happy endings are rare in Chelsey's line of work.

Until, two years after her disappearance, local teenager Ellie Black is found alive in Washington State woods.

But something's not right about her: where has she been, and who is she protecting?

Chelsey has to find out. For herself, for her sister, and before the next girl is taken.
  • Published: 13 May 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405961615
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $28.00

About the author

Emiko Jean

Emiko Jean is a NYT bestselling author, whose YA and women's fiction has been Reese Witherspoon and Good Morning America book club picks. She lives in Washington with her husband and their two unruly twins. The Next Girl was her first thriller and All Those Quiet Lies is the second novel in the Detective Calhoun series.
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Praise for The Next Girl

Magnetic. I couldn't put it down.

Stephen King

Incredible. The definition of a page-turner.

Clare Mackintosh

Immersive, gripping, and with a twist you won’t see coming

Ellery Lloyd

What a page-turner, and masterful in its structure with a truly shocking twist at the end. It’s an absolute winner for me.

Susan Lewis

‘Dark, twisted, and beautifully written. But it's also a thoughtful exploration of trauma, female rage, the violence women face and the roles we're allowed to play. I loved it.’

Andrea Bartz

I stayed up late into the night turning the pages . . . a truly jaw-dropping twist.

Jessica Knoll

Brooding and atmospheric with a truly gripping plot. THE NEXT GIRL is an immersive experience.

Mary Kubica

A stunning novel that explores the endurance of the human spirit and asks how far someone would go for love.

Nikki Smith

An emotional gut punch of a thriller, Emiko Jean had me enthralled with her pitch-perfect pacing, elegant prose, and twists I never saw coming.

Samantha Downing

Truly compelling. Emiko Jean will soon be a household name.

Daily Mail