After All I've Done: A Novel

by Mina Hardy

Overview

Writing as Mina Hardy, New York Times bestselling author Megan Hart delivers a thrilling new psychological suspense for fans of The Woman in the Window and When the Lights Go Out.

She's lost her best friend, her husband—and possibly, her mind.

Five months ago, an accident left Diana Sparrow badly injured and missing a few months of her memory. As if that's not enough, she's started having recurring nightmares about the night of the accident. Dreams that feel so real, she's left questioning: maybe she didn't just slide off the road into a ditch. Maybe, just maybe, she hit something. Or someone.

She can't turn to her former best friend Val, who's been sleeping with Diana's husband Jonathan for months, but she might find some comfort in newcomer Cole Pelham. Yet the closer they become, the more Diana begins to wonder what really happened that night—and how Cole might be connected. Worse, it seems everyone else could be involved, too.

Who was with her that night? What really happened? As her life unravels thread by thread and the dreams become too real to ignore, Diana will have to face the unthinkable—and do the unforgivable.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643859606
Publisher:	CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	1,045,786
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Mina Hardy writes books. Usually, they feature good people making bad choices, but sometimes they might be about bad people making good choices. Either way, everyone is basically a mess, and you shouldn't trust any of them. From twisted tales of domestic suspense to darker stories of bumping in the night, you can expect thrills and a few chills.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for After All I've Done:

AN AUTHENTIC BOOKS SELECTION NOVEMBER 2020

"A dark, unpredictable, and twisty look at friendship and betrayal, and it will surprise you right up until the end.”
—Buzzfeed

“An unsettling story that will leave you questioning everything, including the narrator.”
—POPSUGAR

“[An] expert nightmare...One of those rare thrillers whose answers are even more scarifying than its mysteries.”
—Kirkus, starred review

“[A] twisty psychological thriller...Hardy does an expert job keeping the emotional heat high.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Plenty of unexpected twists and turns...Brace yourself!”
—BookReporter

“The domestic suspense and thriller fan’s dream book. Complete with a cast of possibly unreliable characters and missing pieces that must be fitted together, this book will keep readers guessing as they turn page after page.”
—Portland Book Review

“An enthralling tale of betrayal..Stunning.”
—Fresh Fiction

"A perfectly twisted tale of love, betrayal, and the hopes and heartbreaks of friendship. A modern-day Gaslight that I couldn’t put down. Mina Hardy knows exactly how to turn the screws tighter in this story of sharp-edged bonds of friendship with her new thriller, After All I’ve Done. I loved every moment of dark hope and shimmering suspense.”
—Victoria Helen Stone, bestselling author of Jane Doe 

"After All I’ve Done will keep readers guessing to the very end, as heroes and villains blur, as love and hate switch places. A great read!"
—Susan Crawford, author of The Pocket Wife and The Other Widow
 
"Twisty and unexpected fun, a psychological thriller about betrayal and friendship that makes you wonder what's real and what's not."
 — Darby Kane, author of Pretty Little Wife

From the Publisher

09/07/2020

A traumatic car accident has left 45-year-old Diana Sparrow, the unreliable narrator of much of this twisty psychological thriller from the pseudonymous Hardy (Little Secrets, as Megan Hart), unable to remember much of the last half year of her life, but she knows something’s amiss. In particular, she’s aware her husband, Jonathan, is lying to her and is having an affair. Chapters narrated by her estranged friend, Valerie , reveal that Jonathan’s affair is with Valerie. A third narrator, the handsome and mysterious Cole , who thinks Diana is beautiful, arranges to run into her at a coffee shop and strikes up an acquaintance. Cole knows more about Diana than he lets on. The tension rises as it becomes clear that Jonathan and his mother are scheming to gaslight Diana, to whom more and more odd things occur, such as discovering her car intact after Jonathan told her it was totaled in the accident. Will Diana be able to stay sane? Readers will eagerly turn the pages to find out. Hardy does an expert job keeping the emotional heat high. Agent: Jessica Faust, Bookends Literary. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

★ 2020-08-19
A middle-aged woman sidelined by a horrific accident finds even sharper pains waiting on the other side of her recuperation in this expert nightmare by Hardy, familiar to many readers as Megan Hart, author of All the Secrets We Keep (2017), etc.

Five months ago, while she was on her way to the hospital with an ailing gallbladder, Diana Sparrow’s car hit a deer on a rural Pennsylvania road. When she awoke, she was minus her gallbladder, two working collarbones (and therefore two functioning arms), and her memory. During a recovery that would’ve been impossible without the constant ministrations of Harriett Richmond, the mother-in-law who’s the real reason Diana married her husband, Jonathan, Diana’s discovered that Jonathan has been cheating on her with her childhood friend Valerie Delagatti. Divorce is out of the question: Diana’s grown used to the pampered lifestyle the prenup she’d signed would snatch away from her. Every day is filled with torments. She slips and falls in a pool of wine on her kitchen floor she’s sure she didn’t spill herself. At the emergency room, her credit card and debit card are declined. She feels that she hates oppressively solicitous Harriett but has no idea why. Her sessions with her psychiatrist fail to heal her rage at her adoptive mother, an addict who abandoned her then returned only to disappear again and die an ugly death. Even worse, her attempts to recover her lost memory lead to an excruciatingly paced series of revelations. Val says Diana asked her to seduce Jonathan. Diana realizes that Cole, a fellow student in her watercolor class, isn’t the stranger she’d thought he was. Where can this maze of deceptions possibly end?

One of those rare thrillers whose answers are even more scarifying than its mysteries.

Kirkus Reviews