Finding Sophie

Description

9781526647566
Raven Books
Paperback
337pp
Raven Books
198×129
Imran Mahmood Raven Books FFD|FHX|FXD Paperback 2025

Kept me guessing until the very end. A courtroom drama with nice sharp teeth
Ian Rankin

Incredible plotting and devastatingly good writing – this book deserves enormous success
The Secret Barrister

Finding Sophie is a great thriller as well as a moving look at parental grief . . . I frequently wept while reading it but couldn't put it down
Alison Flood, Observer

[A] forceful slow-burn narrative . . . handled with Grisham-like assurance
Financial Times

A moving yet tense read with a jaw-dropping end
Woman’s Own

I couldn't turn the pages fast enough
Nina Pottell, Prima

Nuanced, heart-breaking . . . absorbing and genuinely moving – not to be missed
Daily Mail

I loved it, so smart and the plot twists blew me away. Imran is the only author writing about a missing person that deals with grief this well
Gillian McAllister

The suspense is well maintained throughout . . . surprising and satisfying . . . it is a treat to read accounts of a police investigation and court case written by someone who knows how both are conducted
Literary Review

A clever, chilling thriller that is also unexpectedly moving
Shari Lapena

Finding Sophie is a rare accomplishment. By turns a heart-stopping thriller, a heartfelt mystery, and a powerful study of grief, hope, and the unbreakable bond between parent and child. Brilliant
Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

Compelling
Crime Monthly

Wow, what an ending! An intense, desperate, heartfelt and claustrophobic story about the lengths parents will go to for love. Some books have a gut punch at the end. In Finding Sophie you're emotionally winded all the way through
C. L. Taylor

This thrilling and emotional roller coaster moved me to tears with its powerful portrayal of the agonies of parental love and loss. Perfect for fans of Lisa Jewell, Imran Mahmood has excelled himself with this clever, heart-breaking thriller
Jo Callaghan, author of In the Blink of an Eye

What an exciting and compulsive read! Two parents with the same goal afraid to tell each other how far they are prepared to go, but they are not the only ones keeping secrets. Imran has surpassed my expectations with an astonishingly twisty tale of despair, deception and desperation
Liz Nugent, author of Strange Sally Diamond

Finding Sophie is a Domestic Noir objet d'art. Mahmood's writing is exceptionally beautiful for a crime genre novel. The tension he manages to weave within such accessible and recognisable human emotions is genuinely extraordinary, and the pacing hits a real punch because you spend the entire book just wanted it all to turn out all right. Brilliant bated-breath stuff
Helen Fields, author of The Institution

Finding Sophie by Imran Mahmood is his best yet. Beautifully written, visceral, evocative, and compelling – but with a plot that keeps you guessing to the end. So much more than a legal thriller, this is a work of pure brilliance
Janice Hallett

Mahmood's latest slice of psychological noir examines the dilemma facing a couple whose child has gone missing and who are convinced the culprit lives on their own street. How far will desperate parents go? What boundaries will they cross to uncover the fate of their child? These are the questions tackled by Mahmood in this powerful and beautifully written suspense thriller
Vaseem Khan

One of the best and most intelligent thrillers I've read in a long while. Written with such skill that you forget you're reading a novel and just get lost in the story. Gripping, moving, brilliant
Anna Mazzola