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  • Published: 9 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405980692
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive




Packed with delicious atmosphere and slow-burn suspense, the new must-have mystery from author of Richard and Judy pick The Heatwave

It’s been years since Rain went home.
To many, growing up on the Tanglewood estate, nestled in a beautiful corner of the Cotswolds countryside, seemed like a dream.
But for Rain, memories of her childhood there are forever tainted by what happened that summer. The wild party. The body…
Now estranged from her mother, and all ties to Tanglewood, Rain thought she’d moved on.
Yet when another dead body is found at Tanglewood, she knows she must face her past.
Rain has long held suspicions that what happened that summer wasn’t an accident. It was murder.
And now's her chance to prove it.

  • Published: 9 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405980692
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $28.00

About the author

Katherine Fleet

Kate Riordan is a writer and author coach for The Novelry. Kate is the bestselling author of seven novels, including The Heatwave, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, and Sunday Times bestseller The Girl in the Photograph. She has also written Summer Fever, The Shadow Hour, The Red Letter, The Stranger, and most recently The Liars under the pseudonym Katherine Fleet. As a journalist, she wrote for the Guardian, The Sunday Times, Red, Stella and Grazia.

Kate lives in a very old cottage in a Cotswolds valley where she writes her novels between waiting on two rescue dogs.

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Praise for The Last Time I Saw Her Alive

Praise for Kate Riordan

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I devoured it. Beautiful writing and characterisation and a gripping plot. Such an atmospheric read

Sarah Pearse

Superb storytelling. The ideal read for a holiday!

Prima

A scorching summer read

Lucy Clarke

Completely addictive and wonderfully compelling. A sun-dappled summer escape with a jagged dark heart. You won't be able to put it down

B P Walter

Sultry, atmospheric and unsettling

Erin Kelly

One of my favourite suspense writers

Anna Bailey

A gorgeously written and hugely atmospheric thriller with a dark, compelling mystery at its heart

Lucy Foley

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is an evocative, atmospheric, and deeply satisfying novel. I was thoroughly drawn in by Rain and her world, acutely feeling all the push and pull of her home, the beauty of the wild Cotswolds landscape, and the danger lurking beneath the surface. Stylish and heartfelt, I loved it!

Emylia Hall

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive is, simply, sensational; both fiendishly compelling and jaw-droppingly beautiful. Kate Riordan has a unique and wonderful talent for complex characters, almost unbearable suspense and wildly evocative, haunting settings. I was blown away by this novel

Rosie Walsh
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