The Girl Before

A new world thriller!

Claire Wright is in despair. She studies acting in New York, and in the absence of a green card she takes the only job she can get—to be the “bait” for unfaithful husbands in bars, working for a law firm specializing in divorces.

But one day, the rules of the game change.

The husband of a client becomes a suspect in the brutal murder of his wife, and the police ask Claire to use her acting talents to extract a confession from the suspect under the guidance of an ingenious police psychologist.

From the start, Claire doubts Patrick Fowler’s guilt. But isn’t her growing certainty that he’s innocent a sign that she has gotten too deeply absorbed into her role? Or maybe it’s the police making a terrible mistake?

She realizes she’s falling in love with her “target,” and begins to wonder: who, of the two, is the “bait” in reality—and who is the victim?

Soon Claire understands that she’s playing the deadliest role in her life.