The Sugar Man
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  • Published: 5 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405947848
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00
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The Sugar Man

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9 Sep 2025
EBook
5 Jun 2025
Audiobook
5 Jun 2025
Hardback
5 Jul 2025
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A serial killer in a small religious cult. A detective who has waited decades for justice. The gripping and heart-breaking new mystery from an exciting breakthrough crime talent...

Dakota Finch never really recovered from the day her best friend was murdered. Dakota and Flora were best friends – and Dakota has never confessed her own dark secret about what she did that day.

Years later, Dakota has become a detective, hiding her broken heart behind a rock-hard shell. When her latest misdemeanour sees her re-assigned back to her small home town, she can’t help but think it could be her chance to finally catch Flora’s killer – a man who’s only ever be known as \"the Sugar Man\".

When another body is found, stirring up memories of her last summer with Flora, Dakota realises the truth may be hiding in the secretive Amish-like cult based in the nearby woodland.

But this is a killer who has stayed hidden for decades, and they won’t hesitate to kill again to protect their darkest secret…
  • Published: 5 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405947848
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $32.00
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About the author

Nicolás Obregón

British born of a Spanish father and a French mother, Nicolás Obregón grew up between London and Madrid. As a travel writer, Nicolás has had an extensive experience of Japan, but the beginning of his fascination with the country came from watching Japanese cartoons as a young boy. The inspiration for Blue Light Yokohama is easy to mark. During his first trip to Japan, Nicolás came across an article about a real-life crime which was to haunt him. Sixteen years after this atrocity, the case remains unsolved. Nicolás Obregón is a graduate of the acclaimed Birkbeck Creative Writing Masters course and a former bookseller for Waterstones.

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Praise for The Sugar Man

Praise for Nicolás Obregón

A masterpiece

Jeffery Deaver

I'm awestruck

A. J. Finn

A dark, brutal ride

Anthony Horowitz

Truly heart-rending

Daily Express

Brooding and intricately woven, The Sugar Man delivers a rich tapestry of characters and a deliciously claustrophobic small town setting. Addictive and oh so clever, this book is a masterclass in plotting and I inhaled it in two greedy gulps.

Ali Land, bestelling author of Good Me Bad Me

With a nod to the classic film Witness, The Sugar Man finds hardbitten cop Dakota Finch on the trail of a serial killer hiding in an insular religious community back in a place – and a past – she thought she had left behind. An unflinching and mesmerizing small town crime story.

Vaseem Khan 

Nail-bitingly compelling and utterly engrossing, The Sugar Man keeps you turning the pages as worlds, pasts and secrets collide.

Tim Glister

With The Sugar Man, Obregón delivers a deft and riveting mystery that I genuinely struggled to put down. This one will haunt me for a long time.

Anna Bailey