The Last Days of Kira Mullan: A Novel
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French, Nicci

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Maud O’Connor

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HarperCollins , 2025.

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From international bestselling master of suspense Nicci French comes a chilling new psychological thriller about a woman determined to get justice for a murder no one else believes happened.

Nancy North is ready to put her life back together. After suffering a psychotic break that ruined friendships, stalled her fledgling restaurant, and forced her to move out of her comfortable flat, she’ll do anything to get back to normal. She and her partner Felix—who has been a saint through her recent troubles—move into a new flat for a fresh start.

Nancy is taking her pills, seeing her therapist, and avoiding unnecessary stress. She’s doing absolutely everything right, but something is still very, very wrong. On the first day in the new flat, she hears them again; the mysterious voices that triggered her first episode. It could just be the unfamiliar sounds of water in the pipes, or the screaming baby across the hall, but deep down she knows something more sinister is going on. Her fears are confirmed when the young woman in the downstairs flat, Kira, is found dead. Felix, her neighbors, and even the police insist it’s a tragic suicide, but the pieces aren’t adding up for Nancy. Can she trust her own instincts, or is it all in her head?

Meanwhile, Detective Inspector Maud O’Connor has misgivings about her colleagues’ investigation of Kira’s death. The boys club at the top seems intent on closing the case as quickly as possible, especially since the only person who thinks it could be anything other than suicide is known to be unreliable. But Maud knows what it’s like to be dismissed as an overemotional woman and isn’t so quick to discount Nancy’s claims. As tensions reach an explosive breaking point, the line between fact and delusion becomes dangerously blurred, but Maud will stop at nothing to ensure that the truth comes to light.

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03/04/2025

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English

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9780063298385

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Cornelia Read and Nicci French both write intimate, gripping, and character-driven psychological suspense novels featuring intelligent, stubborn, and emotionally complex female protagonists. There is an element of danger in Read's stories, but it is stronger in French's. -- Derek Keyser

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Stephen White and Nicci French pen suspenseful psychological thrillers that feature practicing clinical psychologists. Their protagonists often find themselves embroiled in both potentially dangerous criminal investigations and in difficult personal conflicts. Their strong sense of ethics usually wins the day. -- Mike Nilsson

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Sophie Hannah and Nicci French excel at intricately plotted, psychologically intense narratives that frequently straddle the line between "thriller" and "mystery." Both write series as well as stand-alone novels; French's novels tend to be more disturbing in tone, while Hannah's are haunting and reflective. -- Kim Burton

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British writers Louise Doughty and Nicci French have thoroughly mastered the dark art of psychological suspense fiction. Disturbing situations, sudden violence, and a palpable sense of foreboding permeate their work. Their complex female protagonists and unnerving intensity make for compelling, suspenseful reading. -- Mike Nilsson

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Londoner Nancy North has been released from the psych ward after suffering a psychotic break that shuttered her dream restaurant. Now, she and her partner Felix must relocate to a tiny flat in a grubby divided Victorian. The next day, their new downstairs neighbor, Kira, is found hanged. Horrified, Nancy recognizes Kira as the distressed woman she recently encountered on the street and insistently questions the Met's suicide theory. She's easily dismissed: Felix has helpfully caught everyone up on her "delicate" mental state. After neighbors report that she's been sneaking around and has threatened the neighborhood busybody, Felix has Nancy involuntarily committed. This time, Nancy wields strategic acquiescence and emerges determined to reveal the sinister truths concealed behind the neighborhood's closed doors. Fortunately, she finds that DI Maud O'Connor (from Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter, 2024) isn't afraid to out her fellow detective's shoddy investigation. This second episode in an outstanding series blending psychological thriller and procedural (à la Elizabeth George and Kate Atkinson) offers a prismatic, unputdownable take on coercive control.

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Bestselling French brings back Detective Inspector Maud O'Connor, who was first featured in Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? In this case, Maud, knowing what it's like not to be believed, is willing to listen to Nancy, who thinks the death in the apartment below hers was not self-inflicted—and hears voices telling her so. Prepub Alert. Copyright 2024 Library Journal

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

French, N. (2025). The Last Days of Kira Mullan: A Novel . HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

French, Nicci. 2025. The Last Days of Kira Mullan: A Novel. HarperCollins.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

French, Nicci. The Last Days of Kira Mullan: A Novel HarperCollins, 2025.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

French, N. (2025). The last days of kira mullan: a novel. HarperCollins.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

French, Nicci. The Last Days of Kira Mullan: A Novel HarperCollins, 2025.

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