Worst Case Scenario

A deliciously dark, unapologetically funny, and nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller by the international bestselling author of The Cry

NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER

***Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR***

***Sunday Times TOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years***

***Longlisted for Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020***

Shocking, gripping and laugh-out-loud hilarious from the first line to the last. BrilliantErin Kelly

This frenetic novels strongest assets are its sheer verbal energy and the acerbic views of its heroine, who resembles a female Frankie BoyleSunday Times

The main character is one of the most extraordinary youll meet between the pages of a bookIan Rankin

A scandalously rude comic masterpieceDaily Telegraph

SublimeGuardian

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Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, dealing with some of Glasgows worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and hes published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero – and a poster boy for Mens Rights activists.

Liam is released on licence into Marys care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liams daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice … with devastating consequences.

A heart-pounding, relentless and chilling psychological thriller, rich with deliciously dark and unapologetic humour, Worst Case Scenario is also a perceptive, tragic and hugely relevant book by one of the most exciting names in crime fiction.

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Laced with pitch-dark acerbic humour, the classic thriller gets a hell of a twistHeat

This darkly, funny, shocking and surprisingly emotional thriller is unlike anything youve ever read before Fabulous Magazine

This novel is a funny, agonising account of one good womans battle with rage, guilt, fear, duty and disasterLiterary Review

Absolutely compelling company from start to finish in this wonderful, energetic, hard-hitting and deeply funny novelBig Issue

Simply stunning. Dark, uncompromising, funny, and almost impossible to put downLuca Veste

Outrageous, extremely funny and ultimately devastatingAmbrose Parry

Dark humour and darker truths permeate a thrilling crime novel that is fabulously transgressive and completely unique … nobody writes like Helen FitzgeraldMark Billingham

Helen Fitzgerald is one of a kind, and a welcome breath of fresh air in the world of off-beat but achingly relatable crime fictionSJI Holliday

A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time. Great stuff!Mark Edwards