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  • Published: 17 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405977036
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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Not Quite Dead Yet





The outstanding adult thriller debut from the multimillion-copy-bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

In seven days Jet Mason will be dead.

Twenty-seven years old, she’s back living with her parents, waiting for her life to begin. She’ll do it later, she always says. Her parents have their doubts.

Until, on the night of Halloween, Jet is violently attacked by an unseen intruder.

She suffers a catastrophic brain injury. The doctor is certain that within a week, she’ll suffer a deadly aneurysm.

Jet never thought of herself as having enemies. But now she looks at everyone in a new light: her family, her ex-best friend turned sister-in-law, her former boyfriend.

She may only have seven days – if she even makes it that long – but Jet is absolutely determined to finally prove her doubters wrong.

Jet is going to solve her own murder.

  • Published: 17 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781405977036
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 448
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Praise for Not Quite Dead Yet

Praise for Holly Jackson

Blisteringly good

Observer

The secrets, suspense and action pushes you to read the entire book in just one sitting

The Independent

An instantly gripping, corkscrew-twisty thriller

The Guardian

Holly Jackson plays off of our collective true crime obsession brilliantly

PopSugar

This truly unique premise snowballs into a roller coaster ride of page-turning suspense and knock-out twists!

Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times bestselling author

The queen of YA effortlessly conquers a whole new realm with her first adult novel. Propulsive, unputdownable and unexpectedly heart wrenching, Not Quite Dead Yet is a masterclass in thriller writing and an example of storytelling at its finest

Alex Michaelides, New York and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient

Not Quite Dead Yet is everything I love about Holly Jackson’s novels dialled up to eleven — a searingly clever premise, of course absolutely unputdownable, interspersed with her trademark humour, and with a protagonist in Jet that you can’t help rooting for. An instant classic

Amy McCulloch, author of Breathless and Runner 13

Fiercely original, wickedly clever, and so damn fun, Not Quite Dead Yet is a wild ride with a heroine you can't help but root for. It had me snickering, gasping, and flying through the chapters until the final page

Andrea Bartz, author of We Were Never Here and The Last Ferry Out

A thrilling, twisting, heartbreaker. Holly Jackson’s adult debut is fresh, fun and impossible to put down

Chris Whitaker

'I felt all the emotions while reading Not Quite Dead Yet. It’s funny, touching, heartbreaking, thrilling and totally addictive. An original and unique thriller that I’ll be thinking about for a long time.'

Claire Douglas

'I absolutely loved it: twisty, edgy, and with her trademark voice. It deserves to fly'

Gillian McAllister
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