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The Shame Game
  • Published: 31 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529947984
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $35.00

The Shame Game

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Paperback
10 Mar 2026
EBook
31 July 2025
Audiobook
31 July 2025
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You have no choice but to play. The rules are simple.
The only way to save yourself is to ruin your friend’s life…

All it takes to turn your life upside down is one notification on your phone.

Someone knows what you did, what you spent years trying to forget. Now they’re going to make it public. Unless you do exactly what they say.

Once you’ve followed their instructions to the letter, you realise this is just the start. Because they’ve led you to a secret that your friend would kill to keep hidden, a story that would ruin them if it ever came out.

Then a new text message arrives:
Welcome to The Shame Game. If you want your secret to stay hidden, you need to tell the world what your friend has done. You need to ruin them…
  • Published: 31 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529947984
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $35.00
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About the author

L. D. Smithson

L. D. Smithson was born in Staffordshire and now lives in Ilkley. She is an occupational psychologist and a crime writer who has published under another name.

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Praise for The Shame Game

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What fun!

Guardian

Immediately immersive, and scary as can be.

Lee Child

Stylish, glamorous and clever.

Andrea Mara

A gut-wrenching read.

Woman’s Own

A definite page-turner. The pace never slackens.

Faith Martin

The pace is relentless, meaning there’s plenty to keep you entertained throughout.

Belfast Telegraph

Smart, suspenseful and seriously tense, The Escape Room is the very definition of a page turner.

CULTUREFLY

LD Smithson relentlessly turns the screws on her characters. It was excruciating to watch them squirm but I could not stop turning the pages.

Emma Curtis, author of The Babysitter

Praise for The Shame Game

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A wickedly tense and twisty thriller that peels back the layers of friendship, shame, and long-buried secrets. If you loved First Lie Wins, prepare to be equally obsessed—this one will have you turning pages well into the night!

Wendy Walker, author of The Room Next Door

Totally original… a riveting story with a bunch of flawed and fascinating characters. Their lives are turned upside down and the shocks keep coming right up to an explosive ending. Highly recommended.

Alex Pine, author of The Christmas Killer

The countdown ramps up the tension, while LD Smithson challenges readers to think about far they would go to save their reputations and careers.

Sunday Times