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A new, dark and shockingly funny thriller that you won’t be able to put down

Dangerous to Know

The first book in an addictive, shocking and hilariously funny series

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Revenge will be sweet - and in this case, extremely funny

Packed with glamour, murder, sex and oodles of humour - an ideal beach read

This fast-paced novel is a deadly game of cat and mouse . . . Multi-faceted, funny Alvie comes in hot, bringing with her a whole new level of hot, wicked, crazy awesome . . . Readers will fly through this book, and anxiously await the conclusion to the trilogy

The must-have beach read this summer

A fast-paced tale of sex, lies and murder . . . Sex and the City dialled up several notches

A summer read to make you hotter than the weather outside . . . you'd be mad not to find room for this in your case

Gone Girl plus . . . Esposito has added a dollop of Bridget Jones to the mix

So begins this caper that has Alvina up to her neck in designer labels, hot sex and trouble . . . outrageous

I just read Mad in one go. I bloody LOVED it. Like Gone Girl, if Amy Schumer had written it. SUCH fun

Allergic to chick lit? Meet Alvie Knightly . . . Insane as its title promises

Trust us when we say that you won't ever have encountered a character quite like Alvie Knightly . . . A brilliantly bonkers read

Like The Devil Wears Prada - fast-paced, but funnier and more readable

Independent, 10 Best Debut Novels by Women Authors

If you loved [Paula Hawkins'] Into the Water, try Mad

She's an evil hot mess is what she is, and I kinda like it!

bestselling author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k

Pure, unadulterated entertainment. There is nothing Chloé Esposito's Alvie won't do. Strap in for a fun, fast and fresh read

Sunday Times bestselling author of Good Me Bad Me

Chloe Esposito introduces a compelling and uncensored antiheroine

Using Sicily as a backdrop with its gorgeous architecture, villas and sexy men, Esposito pens an unforgettable summer debut headed by a no-holds-barred protagonist

Deliciously over-the-top, with a protagonist you'll never forget

Chloe [has] a fantastic natural vibrancy and humour in her work

Richard Skinner, Director of Fiction at the Faber Academy

A gripping, dark and outrageously funny thriller

Alvie Knightly worked hard for her money. Some might disagree - but it isn't easy to cheat your way to a fortune. 
 
So when she wakes up one morning to discover that every penny has disappeared - and that her hot new boyfriend, Nino, has disappeared with it - she's furious. 
 
Tracking Nino to Rome, Alvie's determined to do whatever it takes to get her money back... and take sweet revenge on Nino in the process. 
 
But can she win back her perfect life before her crimes catch up with her?

The new sizzler in the Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know trilogy! 
 
'Revenge will be sweet - and in this case, extremely funny' New 
 
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She stole the life she wanted. Now someone wants to steal it back . . . 
 
Alvie Knightly may be waking up in the Ritz, but her life is no bed of roses. 
 
Firstly, she has the mother of all hangovers. 
 
Secondly, her beautiful, spoiled twin sister Beth has just been found dead in Sicily - and the police want Alvie for questioning. 
 
And thirdly, Alvie's hot new boyfriend has vanished with every penny of the millions they stole from Beth . . . 
 
But he picked the wrong girl to mess with. 
 
Alvie will pursue her ex to Rome in a game of cat and mouse that only one of them can survive. 
 
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned . . . But can Alvie get revenge before her crimes catch up with her? 
 
Readers LOVE Bad: 
 
'I couldn't put it down' 
 
'This is the most fun you'll have with a book this summer. I loved it.' 
 
'I fell straight into the story. I loved the chase, the thrill, the ending . . . just all of it.' 
 
Loved Bad? Why not read more about Alvie in Dangerous to Know . . .

Chloé Esposito is from Cheltenham and now lives in London. She has a BA and MA in English from Oxford University, where her dissertation focused on 19th-century feminist writers. She has been a senior management consultant, an English teacher at two of the UK's top private schools and a fashion stylist at Condé Nast. She is a graduate of the Faber Academy and is now writing full-time.

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A gripping, dark and outrageously funny thriller

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