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  • Published: 1 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529196023
  • Imprint: Century
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $34.99

Don’t Let Him In





PREPARE TO BE HOOKED: The no. 1 Sunday Times and MULTI-million-copy bestselling author is back with a brand-new spine tingling thriller.

PREPARE TO BE HOOKED BY THE GRIPPING NEW THRILLER FROM LISA JEWELL.

'Gripping. Shocking. Masterful.' FREIDA McFADDEN

‘Lisa Jewell is a stone-cold genius and Don’t Let Him In deserves to win mainstream literary prizes. Her best book yet. A PHENOMENAL achievement!’ MARIAN KEYES

‘A twisty mosaic of a thriller’ GILLIAN McALLISTER

'Utterly absorbing, fiendishly clever and all-consuming' ANDREA MARA

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He’s the perfect man.

He says he loves you.

You think he might even be made for you.

Before long he’s moved into your house – and into your heart.

And then he leaves for days at a time. You don’t know where he’s gone or who he’s with.

And you realise - if you looked back - you’d say to yourself:

DON’T LET HIM IN.


Don’t miss the new read-in-one-sitting Lisa Jewell novel; a cautionary story that could happen to you…

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Praise for Don't Let Him In:

'A masterclass in suspense . . . Lisa Jewell expertly draws together the strands of deceit with increasing menace, presenting us with one of the most chilling, unsettling villains I’ve encountered in a long time' ALEX MICHAELIDES

‘Reading a Lisa Jewell is like putting yourself inside a pressure cooker – one that you don’t really want to get out of. Nobody creates characters like she does – and in Nick she has created one of her darkest, twistiest yet’ JOJO MOYES

'I inhaled it within 24 hours. Stunning, shocking, superb.' LIZ NUGENT

'Utterly brilliant' MARK EDWARDS

'A clever, multi-layered narrative full of unforgettable characters. You'll be on the edge of your seat from the start and the story only gets more compelling as it goes on. Don't bother making any plans until you've finished it!' JANE CASEY

'What a tour de force of plotting and tension-building . . . She is a genius' SABINE DURRANT

'Nobody - nobody - does this better than Jewell. She peoples her ingenious plots with true-to-life characters. Don’t Let Him In is the best book of Lisa Jewell’s career' A.J. FINN

'I devoured it in one breathless sitting. Utterly captivating, ingeniously plotted, unsettling, a tense jaw-dropping, rollercoaster ride that will keep you on your toes until the very last brilliant line. So bloody brilliant! A master of her craft' Michelle McDonagh

  • Published: 1 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529196023
  • Imprint: Century
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 464
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell was born in London. Her first novel, Ralph’s Party, was the bestselling debut novel of 1999. Since then she has published another sixteen novels, most recently a number of dark psychological thrillers, including The Girls and Then She Was Gone (both of which were Richard & Judy Book Club picks) as well as I Found You and Watching You. Lisa is a top ten New York Times and number one Sunday Times bestselling author who has been published worldwide in over twenty-five languages. She lives in north London with her husband, two daughters, two cats, two guinea pigs and the best dog in the world.

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Praise for Don’t Let Him In

Jewell is on a hot streak, with one brilliant thriller after another . . . As tantalizingly labyrinthine as her stories are, it’s the way she anchors them in a recognizably real world, and populates them with abundantly human characters, that makes them so successful. In a genre full of top-flight authors, she ranks very near the absolute top.

Booklist Starred Review

A masterclass of a twisty thriller, you'll want to read this in one sitting

Stylist

Reading a Lisa Jewell is like putting yourself inside a pressure cooker - one that you don’t really want to get out of. Nobody creates characters like she does - and in Nick she has created one of her darkest, twistiest yet

Jojo Moyes

A clever, multi-layered narrative full of unforgettable characters. You'll be on the edge of your seat from the start and the story only gets more compelling as it goes on. Don't bother making any plans until you've finished it!

Jane Casey

What a tour de force of plotting and tension-building, the slow pulling together of all those separate threads into one absolutely clankingly satisfying denouement.. I LOVE a book in which female victims, apparently abused and downtrodden, rise up as one. Lisa has such a brilliant ability to be simultaneously dark and comforting (the warmth of the characters and the cosiness of the florist and the restaurants and the family bickering). She is a genius I think.

Sabine Durrant

I devoured it in one breathless sitting. Utterly captivating, ingeniously plotted, unsettling, a tense jaw-dropping, rollercoaster ride that will keep you on your toes until the very last brilliant line. So bloody brilliant! A master of her craft.

Michelle McDonagh

Don’t Let Him In is the best book of Lisa Jewell’s career - the pages practically shiver - but it's bigger than that: it’s a book for anyone who has looked at the person sleeping beside them and wondered, Who are you really?

A.J. Finn

With superbly crafted characters whose pain and progress consumed me utterly, this book is an all-consuming masterclass in storytelling.

Gill Perdue

Tense, chilling, and terrifyingly believable, [Lisa Jewell weaves another compelling tale bringing characters to the page who are so real, that they feel like people you know. Which makes Don't Let Him In even more scary - and utterly gripping.], don't start this before you go to bed as you won't be able to put it down!

Sam Blake

I read Lisa Jewel’s newest last night in one straight sitting, completely glued!!! I loved it so much!!! The only sad thing is now I have no more new Jewell look forward to.

Emma Torz

Don't start DON'T LET HIM IN until you have the time to finish it because you will not be able to put this book down. Twisty, dark and relentlessly surprising, with a genuinely frightening villain you won't soon forget. Lisa Jewell - yet again - knocks it out of the park.

Catherine Ryan Howard
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