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Episode 5

Art curator Becker pieces together Vanessa’s life and work on Eris island through her diaries in the new thriller from Paula Hawkins. Read by Alexandra Mathie.

Curator Becker believes that Vanessa’s diaries prove the bone in her famous sculpture has nothing to do with her ex-husband’s disappearance. However his boss Sebastian remains convinced that something's going on - her executor is withholding pieces from his art foundation.

Written by Paula Hawkins
Read by Alexandra Mathie
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie

An EcoAudio certified from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Audio Scotland for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4

The New York Times bestselling author of THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN explores ambition, creativity and loyalty in an unsettling psychological thriller with echoes of Du Maurier and Patricia Highsmith. Uncovering buried links between late artist Vanessa Chapman, her faithless missing husband and the rural GP who holds the key to Chapman’s work, Becker must race the tide if he’s to escape Vanessa’s remote Scottish studio with the deadly story behind ‘Division II’.

Paula Hawkins worked as a journalist for fifteen years before writing her first novel. Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, she moved to London in 1989. Her first thriller THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN became a global phenomenon, selling over 23 million copies and adapted into a box-office-hit film starring Emily Blunt. Paula’s most recent thrillers, INTO THE WATER and A SLOW FIRE BURNING, were also instant No.1 bestsellers. THE BLUE HOUR has just been published around the world.

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