Ruby Cooper and her sister, Erin, live an idyllic life in their close-knit church community in Boston. But when Ruby is sixteen, she is involved in an incident that causes her family’s world to implode.

Across decades, the fallout leaves a wake of destruction behind Ruby in Dublin and Erin in Boston.

Not that Ruby wants to think about the past.

But it can’t stay a secret forever.

Praise For The Truth About Ruby Cooper

“I loved this book so much!  I was invested in every character so deeply that I couldn’t stop reading until I got to the last page!  Absolutely a triumph!”

Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“A brilliantly dark and tangled web that every reader will be completely ensnared by. Liz Nugent weaves these sorts of twisted tales better than anyone else. Such a wild twisty ride and yet every moment has the ring of emotional truth”

Graham Norton, broadcaster, actor, and writer

“Twisted and brilliantly observed”

Irish Examiner Culture Magazine

“A novel that you will want to avoid life in order to read”

Belfast Telegraph

“Another perfectly fiendish and twisty thriller … an utterly gripping story”

Irish Country Living

“An absolute belter of a book. Every time I put it down, I couldn’t wait to get back in. The Truth About Ruby Cooper is Liz Nugent at her dark and twisty best.”

Louise Kennedy, bestselling author of Trespasses

“An utterly gripping story about how one incident reverberates across time, damaging and destroying lives. No one plumbs the human condition, its moral quandaries, quite so deeply and brilliantly as Liz Nugent. I read it as if in a fever.”

Shari Lapena, author of the multi-million-copy-selling author of Everyone Here is Lying

“Utterly compelling and brilliantly imagined…all the way to the last dark twist.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of The Magpie Murders

“Fearless and unforgettable. Just like its protagonist, this book nudges its way into your life until you can think about little else. The Truth About Ruby Cooper is a story of nightmares, but so beautifully told. I loved it”

Abigail Dean, bestselling author of Girl A, Day One and The Death of Us

“Dark, fearless and compelling - in other words, classic Liz Nugent. Utterly distinctive and unique, this is another unforgettable work from an outstanding and brilliant crime writer”

Jane Casey

“Once again, the incomparable Liz Nugent invites us into the darkest parts of the human psyche. I’m certain her legions of fans will agree: Ruby is her most unforgettable creation yet”

Catherine Ryan Howard

“Only Liz Nugent can create characters like these … this is a maestro at work. Another sensational read - clear your diary and prepare to be hooked!”

Sam Blake

“Only Liz Nugent could have written this book ... an unflinching, darkly funny, sometimes disconcerting and always gripping story”

Sinéad Crowley

“Unputdownable, acid-sharp, and emotionally brutal — Liz Nugent at her most compulsive.”

Dervla McTiernan, bestselling author of the Cormac Reilly novels

“An intense and gripping novel about a lie that destroys lives and unravels a family over decades. Liz Nugent gets deep into the heads of her characters and lays bare their most human impulses, no matter how dark. A must-read author at the top of her game”

Gilly Macmillan

“Ruby Cooper is captivating and infuriating and tragic . . . brilliant storytelling”

Michael Robotham

“So absorbing I forgot I was reading a novel and thought I was being told a twisted real-life story, full of shocking confessions and jaw-dropping revelations. Another masterclass in psychological suspense from one of my favourite writers”

Mark Edwards

“I LOVED The Truth About Ruby Cooper . . . it’s so thought-provoking and surprising”

Claire Coughlan

“Liz Nugent is a genius and this is her best book yet”

Lisa Jewell, the New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author

“Lydia Fitzsimons, Sally Diamond and now Ruby Cooper – only Liz Nugent can create deeply dark, disturbing tales with flawed female characters that are an absolute pleasure to read. Addictive and awe-inspiring, from the first page to the last.”

Diane Jeffrey, USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author

“Nugent is one of my favourite all-time writers, and her latest is not just a crime novel, it’s a study in humanity. Deserves to be massive”

Gillian McAllister, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of books including Wrong Place Wrong Time

“An intense and gripping novel about a lie that destroys lives and unravels a family over decades. Liz Nugent gets deep into the heads of her characters and lays bare their most human impulses, no matter how dark. A must-read author at the top of her game. ”

Gillian Macmillan, New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of “To Tell You The Truth”

“Another utterly compelling, dark and unsettling piece of work that’s going to give me a book hangover for weeks.”

John Marrs, internationally bestselling author of “The One”

“Layered, gripping, darker than dark (a LN trademark), and psychologically complex. Beautifully real, flawed, human characters. SUPERB.”

Will Dean

“Liz Nugent is fearless in the places she will go to uncover our basest, darkest impulses. Ruby Cooper is her most morally complex character yet. Utterly compelling.”

Tammy Cohen, Author of “When She Was Bad”

“A brilliant page-turner about family secrets, sibling rivalry, and sex as a weapon. This is another dark, twisted Liz Nugent winner. I loved it!”

Robyn Harding, author of bestselling “The Drowning Woman” and “The Perfect Family”

“I bloody loved it. Liz never fails to surprise and capture and shock. The writing was sublime as always, and the themes dark and hooky. It’s topical and timely. She is brave to approach the subject this way, but these cases (rarely, fortunately) do happen. I hope it flies, but I think it will. Absolutely brilliant.”

Louise Beech/Swanson author of “End of Story” and “Lights Out”

“You will struggle to find darker characters and more wickedly clever tales than those from the mind of Liz Nugent.”

Susi Holliday, bestselling Scottish author of “The Hike”

“A dark, twisted and grippingly addictive read, that drags you in by the lapels, and won’t let go. No one writes compelling characters like Liz Nugent”

Neil Lancaster, author of the DS Max Craigie Scottish Crime Thrillers

“An author of extraordinary talent. I don’t doubt that Liz Nugent’s novels will become literary classics sitting alongside Christie, Highsmith and P.D. James.”

C.L. Taylor, award winning Sunday Times bestselling author

“I absolutely burned through it. It is an incredible work - so layered and nuanced. But above all an incredibly courageous perspective. I loved this book. “

Imran Mahmood, author of the Netflix adapted “You Don’t Know Me”