The Dead Friend Project

'Motherland meets Girl on the Train' - WOMAN & HOME
'A fresh new voice in crime fiction' - JANICE HALLETT
'A tragicomic banger' - HARRIET TYCE
The school run can be murder...
Beth is having a bad day. Her husband has left her. Her fellow school mums judge her. And now she's stuck in A&E after her son fell off the climbing wall on the first day of school.
In fact, it's been nothing but bad days since her best friend Charlotte died in a tragic accident, hit by a car while out jogging. But when Beth learns that Charlotte's toddler was left home alone that night, she begins to question why her friend would do something so uncharacteristically irresponsible. Was Charlotte's death an accident? It's time for Beth to discover what really happened. Once she's put the kids to bed, of course...
'Darkly funny and deftly plotted' - ALICE CLARK-PLATTS
'Riotously funny and searingly observed' - KATE SIMANTS
'You'll never look at school-gate parents the same way again' - D.V. BISHOP

Joanna Wallace studied Law at Birmingham University before working as a commercial litigation solicitor in London. She now runs a family business and lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband, four children and dog. Her debut novel, You'd Look Better as a Ghost, was published by Viper in 2023.