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Dead to Me
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  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241644720
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
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Dead to Me

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7 Oct 2025
EBook
3 July 2025
Audiobook
3 July 2025
Hardback
3 Aug 2025
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You thought he was the one. You broke his heart. But now, he might be the only one who can save your life...A brilliant breakout new thriller from bestselling Gytha Lodge

Anna and Reid weren't meant to be. She's a fiery American journalist; he's a stoic British detective – it was nice while it lasted. Until it wasn't.

And Anna is over it now anyway. She's on the scent of a career-making story – a suspicious death amongst the cloistered elite world of Cambridge University. But the more she investigates, the more there’s only one person she wants to talk to about it. She starts writing Reid a long sprawling email – it’s not like she's ever planning to send it.

Until suddenly, her hunt for a killer leads her into desperate trouble. And the only detective she can trust with her life is the one who broke her heart.
  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241644720
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $34.99
Categories:

About the author

Gytha Lodge

Gytha Lodge is a writer and multi-award-winning playwright who lives in Cambridge. After studying creative writing at UEA, she was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Prize and the Arts' Council England fiction awards, and developed a large online following for her young adult and children's writing, with over seven million reads accrued on platform Wattpad. She Lies in Wait, her debut novel, was a Richard & Judy Book Club Pick.

GL

Also by Gytha Lodge

A Killer in the Family
Little Sister
Lie Beside Me
Watching from the Dark
She Lies in Wait
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Praise for Dead to Me

Praise for Gytha Lodge

I was completely gripped... Such a clever, twisty mystery. I loved it

BP Walter

A taut, gripping thriller

Sun

Classic detective fiction at its best...edge-of-seat suspense

Jeffery Deaver

A corkscrew-twisty, knife-sharp thriller

A.J. Finn

Dead To Me is a delicious slice of dark academia. Another gripping and beautifully written book from Gytha Lodge

C.S. Green

I totally recommend this twisty, unpredictable thriller

Claire Douglas

Imagine Jane Casey and Lisa Jewell and Ruth Ware collaborated to write a brilliant psychological thriller set in dark academia, underpinned by a will they/won’t they romance. But this unique novel is all down to the talented Gytha Lodge – I highly recommend

Jo Callaghan

I loved Dead To Me, a whip-smart, twisty thriller full of intrigue, rivalries and a brilliant heroine you’ll be rooting for. Gytha Lodge gets better and better

Laura Marshall, Sunday Times bestselling author of Friend Request

Propulsive, pacy, hugely immersive – a brilliantly told story. I didn't want it to end but also couldn't stop turning the pages!

Andrea Mara, No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of No One Saw A Thing

Lodge takes her time getting her ducks in a row, but this pays off magnificently as everything finally comes together in the frenzied denouement

The Times

Praise for Gytha Lodge

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Addictive, fast-paced and expertly plotted...I loved it

Claire Douglas

Intriguing, unsettling and twisty as hell

Neil Lancaster

A taut, gripping thriller

Sun

A novel that literally makes you hold your breath then gasp out loud

Val McDermid