{"id":73035,"date":"2025-08-16T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73035\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:00:10","slug":"the-five-best-books-with-unforgettable-plot-twists-according-to-dorothy-koomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/73035\/","title":{"rendered":"The five best books with unforgettable plot twists, according to Dorothy Koomson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\tThe author know as the ‘Queen of the Big Reveal’ shares her favourite books that deliver suspense and surprise\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n


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Senior Writer and Commissioning Editor<\/p>\n

Dorothy Koomson<\/a> has been keeping readers up past their bedtimes for nearly two decades. She\u2019s known as the \u201cQueen of the Big Reveal,\u201d and her bestselling novels \u2013 from The Ice Cream Girls to Give Him to Me \u2013 are packed with secrets, shocks, and jaw-dropping twists that make you question everything you thought you knew. It is no wonder her novels have sold over 2.5 million copies in the UK alone.<\/p>\n

So which books deliver that same addictive sense of suspense and surprise for her? Here, Koomson shares her favourite reads with brilliant plot twists\u2026<\/p>\n

A Murder For Miss Hortense by Mel Pennant\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cEven if cosy mysteries<\/a> aren\u2019t your thing, I would highly recommend giving this book a try. Miss Hortense is a retired nurse who emigrated to Birmingham in the 60s. She is a prominent member of the community who helped set up a Pardner (financial) network back in the day, but had to step away after an incident. She\u2019s drawn back in when a dead body turns up at the home of one of the people in the network.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an amateur sleuth, Miss Hortense cannot help but investigate \u2013 and what she finds is truly jaw-dropping. I read this in two sittings. The mix of characters, some of whom are genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, is fantastic. The plot and the cliff-hanger ending, meanwhile, made this one of my favourite reads of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Baskerville, \u00a316.99<\/p>\n

What Happens In The Dark by Kia Abdullah\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cKia Abdullah is brilliant at hold-your-breath, make-your-heart-race tales. This is the story of two women who grew up together as friends, but who followed very different paths \u2013 Safa became a journalist, while Lilly found fame on television, eventually becoming known as the nation\u2019s sweetheart. But when the fa\u00e7ade around Lilly\u2019s seemingly perfect life starts to crumble, Safa tries to rekindle the friendship. Is Safa prepared, though, to find out what really lies behind what people think they know about their favourite celeb?<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my favourite things about Abdullah\u2019s books are the courtroom scenes where one twist after another is revealed, before the final one is dealt right at the end. This is no different.\u201d<\/p>\n

HQ, \u00a316.99<\/p>\n

A Deadly Likeness by Lesley McEvoy\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of a series of books by real-life criminal profiler Lesley McEvoy. I actually started with this book and had to go back to read the others in the series because the characters are so compelling.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt follows Dr Jo McCready, a profiler whose past comes back to haunt her when someone starts to recreate the murders in a closed case that she created a profile on nearly 15 years earlier. The man responsible for the original murders offers to help catch the new killer from his prison cell. Jo knows she can\u2019t trust him but with no real leads, what choice does she have if she wants to stop others dying? Clever, intriguing with a fantastic last-page twist, I really enjoyed this one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zaffre, \u00a38.99<\/p>\n

Missing White Woman by Kellye Garrett\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Bree wakes up in the AirBnB where she is meant to be having a romantic weekend with her boyfriend Ty, she doesn\u2019t expect to find a dead woman\u2019s body. She certainly doesn\u2019t expect Ty to be missing, or the woman to turn out to be Janelle, whose disappearance has been all over the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow Bree is in the middle of a murder investigation where there is clearly more to everyone in her life, especially Ty. With whiplash-inducing turns, Garrett takes us on an unexpected journey through our current obsession with social media as well as the ways in which we\u2019ve normalised being concerned about some people more than others. I raced through this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simon & Schuster, \u00a38.99<\/p>\n

The Binding Room by Nadine Matheson\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many layers to this mystery of a murdered pastor from a so-called super church \u2013 the story explores everything from religion and mental health \u2018cures\u2019 to exploitation and trauma.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt its heart is DI Angelica Henley, who is in charge of the Serial Crime Unit investigating the crimes connected to this murder. She is pulled in different directions by her need to catch the killer, trying to do right by her team and trying to make her marriage work. There are some pretty epic twists in the book that generally arrive when you think you know which direction the story is headed in. A smart, propulsive read.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Give Him To Me\u2019 by Dorothy Koomson (Headline Review, \u00a39.99) is published in out in paperback now <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The author know as the ‘Queen of the Big Reveal’ shares her favourite books that deliver suspense and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,56946,56947,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-73035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-books-feature","12":"tag-books-features","13":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}