The Family Game
THE RULES
1. LISTEN CAREFULLY<br />2. DO YOUR RESEARCH<br />3. TRUST NO ONE<br />4. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
Harriet Reed is newly engaged to Edward Holbeck, the heir to an extremely powerful American family.
When Edward’s father hands her a tape of a book he’s been working on, she is desperate to listen.
But as she presses play, it’s clear that this isn’t a novel. It’s a confession to murder.
Feeling isolated and confused, Harriet must work out if this is all part of a plan to test her loyalty. Or something far darker.
Because this might be a game to the Holbeck family – but games can still be deadly.
READY OR NOT. HERE THEY COME…
Read the first chapter here.
Praise for The Family Game
“The Holbecks are what you might come up with if you took the Roys from Succession and blended them with the Murdochs, the Macbeths, and the Borgias. . . . The mysteries accrue, as does our admiration for Steadman, whose gift for invention only increases with each novel. . . . Let the fun begin!.”
The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)
“Truly creepy . . . highly imaginative, nail-biting, and great, rollicking fun.”
Crime Reads
“Classy and ingenious new thriller”
BA Paris
“Instantly compelling and filled with ingenious twists and brilliant characters. This is sublime thriller writing”
BP Walter
“Enter another book I’ve read in one sitting: The Family Game by Catherine Steadman . . . (a) psychological thriller that’s a surefire must-read.”
New York Post
“Both sharply modern and timeless, with strains of King Lear, Dickens, and P.D. James’s postwar holiday chillers.”
Flynn Berry, The Washington Post
“[A] terrifically twisty thriller.”
Good Housekeeping (UK)
“Millionaires, marriage and murder make for a potent cocktail in this compelling tale set among the super-rich of New York’s elite”
TM Logan
