Things were difficult with Mike by the end. He was too much, too controlling - sometimes, I was afraid of him. But I've moved on now. I'm getting married to the man of my dreams - he looks after me, but he doesn't stifle me. Mike and the games we used to play - that's all in the past now.
It's time to move on.
Mike and I are finished.
MIKE
It was just a matter of time until she came back to me. After what I did, maybe she's right to make me wait. But Verity knows how sorry I am. And the messages she sends me, the way she calls me, the way she acted last time I saw her - no-one acts like that if they've stopped caring.
Simply one of the most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short, I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line. - Gillian Flynn
I tore through Our Kind of Cruelty - toxic love, obsession and the unflinching unravelling of a mind. Scarily plausible, a great read. - Ali Land
A propulsive and addictive study of the darkness of obsessive love. I was completely gripped from the first word to the last! - Lisa Jewell
A tense, intelligent thriller which kept me gripped and guessing until the last page, and thinking long after that. - Erin Kelly
An addictive dive into dangerous, extreme obsession. A must-read for 2018 - Julia Crouch
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About Araminta Hall
Araminta Hall began her career in journalism as a staff writer on teen magazine Bliss, becoming Health and Beauty editor of New Woman. On her way, she wrote regular features for the Mirror's Saturday supplement and ghost-wrote the super-model Caprice's column.
