Pip Drysdale Pip Drysdale i(14831135 works by)
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2 y separately published work icon The Close-Up Pip Drysdale , Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2024 28343453 2024 single work novel thriller

'Things have not been going well for Zoe Ann Weiss. Once a young novelist full of promise, now she has a failed debut under her belt, a mountain of debt, a dead-end job, and an agent who's about to drop her if she doesn't write something new and brilliant soon.

'Worst of all, she's blocked. Can't-write-a-word blocked. But all that changes one night when she runs into her old flame, Zach Hamilton. It's like no time has passed at all. They start casually dating, and Zach makes her feel like anything is possible. Like the stars have finally realigned themselves in her favour.

'Best of all, her writer's block has disappeared.

'The only issue is Zach isn't just some hot guy with a dream anymore. Now he's a movie star with billboards and PR people and fans and paparazzi ... and even though they're dating in secret, Zoe soon finds herself splashed all over the press. Now everyone seems to know her name.

'But the problem with everyone knowing your name is that everyone knows your name ... including the stalker who's obsessed with Zach.

'The stalker who's re-enacting violent, creepy plot twists from Zoe's first novel, exactly how she wrote them - except now, she's the victim.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Next Girl Pip Drysdale , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2022 25158473 2022 single work novel thriller

'Promising Young Woman meets High Fidelity in the dark and twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know and The Paris Affair.

'A bad day at work. A drunken night. A rogue Instagram follow. That’s all it takes to ruin a life …

'The question is, whose life will be ruined? When Billie wakes up in a strange guy’s bed, her first thought is: what happened last night? She can't even remember meeting him. And how the hell did she get to Coney Island?

'Then reality bites and the memories flood in – the reason she was in that bar, drinking to start with: today she's going to get fired. Because yesterday her law firm lost a big case: Samuel Grange v Jane Delaney. And it looked like it was her fault.

'It wasn't. Yet now Samuel Grange is free to drive off into the sunset in his stupid Porsche and do it all again to another woman. And all Billie can think is: What about the next girl? And the one after that? But there is nothing she can do to stop him.

'Unless ... She could expose the truth about him on her own. Then everyone would see what he was really like. And he wouldn't be able to do it again.

'The problem is, the only way to protect the next girl is to become the next girl. And, well, that could be a little risky ... even deadly.' (Publication summary)

2 y separately published work icon The Paris Affair Pip Drysdale , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 20520123 2021 single work novel crime

'She thinks love can kill you. It turns out she might be right.

'Meet Harper Brown …

'Occupation: Arts journalist
Dream job: Hard-hitting news reporter
Location: Paris
Loves: True crime podcasts, art galleries, coffee, whiskey
Does not love: fake people, toxic positivity, being told how to live her life by smug workmates who have no life (that’s you, Stan), her narcissistic ex
Favourite book: 1984
Favourite artist: Noah X. Sometimes.
Favourite painting: Klimt’s Schubert at the Piano
Special skills: breaking out of car boots, picking locks and escaping relationships.
Superpower: She can lose any guy in three minutes flat. Ask her how.
Secret: She’s hot on the trail of a murderer – and the scoop of a lifetime.'

'That’s if the killer doesn’t catch her first.' (Publication summary)

1 y separately published work icon The Strangers We Know Pip Drysdale , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2019 17465735 2019 single work novel thriller

'When Charlie sees a man who is the spitting image of her husband Oliver on a dating app, her heart stops. Her first desperate instinct is to tell herself she must be mistaken – after all, she only caught a glimpse from a distance as her friends were laughingly swiping through the men on offer.  But no matter how much she tries to push her fears aside, she can’t because she took that photo. On their honeymoon. She just can’t let it go.

'Suddenly other signs of betrayal begin to add up and so Charlie does the only thing she can think of to defend her position – she signs up to the app to catch Oliver in the act.

'But Charlie soon discovers that infidelity is the least of her problems. Nothing is as it seems and nobody is who she thinks they are ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

3 y separately published work icon The Sunday Girl Pip Drysdale , Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2018 14831156 2018 single work novel

'The Girl on the Train meets Before I Go to Sleep with a dash of Bridget Jones in this chilling tale of love gone horribly wrong …

'Some love affairs change you forever. Someone comes into your orbit and swivels you on your axis, like the wind working on a rooftop weather vane. And when they leave, as the wind always does, you are different; you have a new direction. And it’s not always north.'

'Any woman who’s ever been involved with a bad, bad man and been dumped will understand what it feels like to be broken, broken-hearted and bent on revenge...' (Publication summary)

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