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Then Things Went Dark
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  • Published: 13 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405966498
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99
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Then Things Went Dark

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Paperback
13 Jan 2026
Tr. Paperback
10 Sept 2024
EBook
15 Aug 2024
Audiobook
15 Aug 2024
Hardback
5 Oct 2024
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Taylor Jenkins Reid meets The Hunting Party in the hottest thriller of the summer!

Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. But three weeks and eighteen episodes later, five of the six contestants sit in a Portuguese police station, and none of them are winners.

Because twelve million people were watching when Rhys Sutton died. The best friend, the rival, the girlfriend, the lover, and the sworn enemy are left standing. And no-one is talking. But how do you keep secrets when the world has been watching?

Especially when, just a day before his murder, Rhys was the most hated man on television.
  • Published: 13 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781405966498
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $24.99
Categories:

About the author

Bea Fitzgerald

Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling author and content creator who has swiftly become one of the UK's biggest YA stars. Her bestselling debut Girl, Goddess, Queen was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Fantasy Romance of the Year. Her follow-up, The End Crowns All, was an instant bestseller, and was shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2025. Her third YA novel, A Beautiful Evil, was also an instant bestseller. Bea's work has been translated widely across the globe, and when she's not writing, she's entertaining her followers on TikTok and Instagram with her mythology-themed comedy account @chaosonolympus.

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Praise for Then Things Went Dark

Fast-paced and addicting, I was gripped from the first page until the jaw-dropping conclusion.

Lucinda Berry, bestselling author of If You Tell a Lie

True crime meets juicy reality TV

Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of The Paris Widow

Fitzgerald plays a scathing, thrilling game of worst case scenario, poking fun and critiquing dystopian reality TV tropes

Iman Hariri-Kia, author of A Hundred Other Girls and The Most Famous Girl in the World

A true delight.

Rebecca McKanna, author of Don’t Forget the Girl

Sharp, gripping, fun, and utterly brilliant.

Beth Reekles, author of The Kissing Booth

Shocking, addictive and utterly exquisite!

L.C. North, author of Clickbait

Then Things Went Dark is the perfect holiday thriller!

Natali Simmonds, author of Good Girls Die Last

Deliciously dark and moreish ... I could not put it down.

Lizzie Huxley Jones, author of Make You Mine This Christmas

It is such a tightly plotted thriller with plenty of twists and turns in store.

Reader Review

This is a twisting, psychological mine field that examines what people will really do for their five minutes of fame.

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I loved every second of this sun-soaked nightmare.

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This is a must read.

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