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  • Published: 20 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781405922678
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99

The Copycat

The gripping crime thriller you won’t be able to put down





A detective on the edge. A case that might take him over it...

Jaap Rykel is on the brink, his dark past driving him to breaking point - and ending his police career.

Visiting the station one last time, he stumbles across an investigation into a particularly violent murder. A murder where the details exactly match a case he solved years earlier.

But that killer was caught - and is still in prison.

Is there a copycat killer on the loose, playing games with Rykel's fragile mind? Or did he get it wrong, and send an innocent man to prison?

Is this his last chance to make things right? Or is it the blow that finally takes him over the edge . . .

  • Published: 20 August 2019
  • ISBN: 9781405922678
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Jake Woodhouse

Jake Woodhouse has worked as a musician, winemaker and entrepreneur. He now lives in London with his wife and their young gundog. After the Silence is the first book in his Amsterdam Quartet.

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Praise for The Copycat

Unflinching but also surprisingly funny, you keep turning the pages to find out what is the bigger threat to Rykel: the murderer or his own inner demons

Anja de Jager

Terrifying and twisty, Jake Woodhouse's gripping, effortlessly vivid prose makes this intelligent, brilliantly plotted thriller one you will not be able to put down

Sam Blake, Irish Times No.1 Bestselling Author of Little Bones

This might be Jake Woodhouse's best yet. His Jaap Rykel series good from strength to strength and The Copycat embodies everything that's good about the Rykel books. Yes, it's a gripping page-turner but it also has a lot to say on important social messages, brilliantly managing to do so without slowing the pace for a second. Highly recommended.

Craig Robertson

Twisting, stylish and breathlessly paced. I struggled to put it down for a second

Chris Whitaker, CWA Dagger-winning author of Tall Oaks

Utterly enthralling . . . looks set to be one of the key sequences in modern crime fiction

Barry Forshaw, Crimetime

A strong sense of place is matched by a capacity for storytelling that keeps the plot accelerating

Daily Mail

This gripping detective novel will thrill fans of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and bears comparison to Fatherland ... Utterly unputdownable

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