Ruth Ware, the New York Times-bestselling author of One Perfect Couple, will be appearing at the 2024 Kauai Writers Conference in Hawaii this coming week from 11th-17th November.

Ruth will be taking part in several events over the course of the conference, including an interview by Kevin Larimer and sessions with fellow authors Chris Pavone and Jean Kwok. For more information on the festival see here, and for a schedule of the conference see here.

One Perfect Couple, Ruth’s “ultimate trouble-in-paradise thriller” (Erin Kelly) is out now.

Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples—Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana—in order to win a cash prize.

But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real—and the stakes are life or death.

A fast-paced, spellbinding thriller rife with intrigue and characters that feel so true to life, this novel proves yet again that Ruth Ware is the queen of psychological suspense.

One Perfect Couple is out now. Grab your US copy here and your UK copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

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