The Shame Game
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804991695
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99

The Shame Game

  • L. D. Smithson
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2 Dec 2025
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31 Jul 2025
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31 Jul 2025
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Can you destroy your best friend's life in time to save your own? An unputdownable, twisty thriller unlike anything else you've read.

Welcome to The Shame Game. Are you ready to play?

I know what you did. What you’ve kept hidden all these years. Now I’m going to make it public. Unless you do exactly what I say.

There’s only one way to keep your secret hidden: you need to ruin your best friend’s life. Take it apart, piece by piece, until they have nothing left. Betray their trust. Put them to shame.

Let the game begin…
  • Published: 2 December 2025
  • ISBN: 9781804991695
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99
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What fun!

Guardian

Wow! What a page-turner…The nicest people turning on each other when the going gets tough.

Emma Curtis

Immediately immersive, and scary as can be.

Lee Child

Stylish, glamorous and clever.

Andrea Mara

A gut-wrenching read.

Woman’s Own

A definite page-turner. The pace never slackens.

Faith Martin

The pace is relentless, meaning there’s plenty to keep you entertained throughout.

Belfast Telegraph

Smart, suspenseful and seriously tense, The Escape Room is the very definition of a page turner.

CULTUREFLY

LD Smithson relentlessly turns the screws on her characters. It was excruciating to watch them squirm but I could not stop turning the pages.

Emma Curtis

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