The Stranger at the Wedding

The beautiful bride

Annie never believed in true love. Not until she caught sight of Mark on a crowded commuter train. It wasn't until months later that they finally had their picture-perfect first date and after a whirlwind romance, they are now about to tie the knot.

The handsome groom

Both Annie and Mark have suffered tragedy - their shared experience of sorrow has brought them together, but at times the pressure of those losses has also threatened their happiness. Today they will leave all of that in the past, and forge a new life. But not everyone gathered here has come to toast the new couple.

The stranger

And Annie quickly realises that her new life isn't going to be the happily ever after she had planned.


Whose side are you on?

Review

Accomplished . a masterpiece of misdirection . the final revelation ... a stunner ― Sunday Times

Sharp, shocking, twisting and twisted. The Stranger at the Wedding is darkly thrilling, clever and unsettling -- Chris Whitaker, Sunday Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End, winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2021

Twisty-turny. [will] have you compulsively reading until the devastating final conclusion ― Heat

Annie and Mark's past is skilfully revealed and concealed . . . original . . . unpredictable ― Daily Mail

A dark unputdownable read ― Bella

The Stranger at the Wedding is a cunning, twisted mystery that will keep you second guessing who you can trust until the very last page -- Sara Ochs, author of The Dive

Gripping ― Crime Monthly

A. E. Gauntlett takes the normal anxieties found in relationships . . . and twists them into something horrible . . . as the story darkens, the tensions rises ― Literary Review

A terrific slow burn of a thriller with beautifully-constructed twists -- Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Between Us and The Golden Couple

Superbly twisty and thoroughly addictive -- Alice Clark-Platts

An elegant, chilling thriller that kept me guessing - I was gripped by this clever study of love, obsession and the myths we tell ourselves about a happy ever after -- Phoebe Locke

Beautifully insidious, The Stranger at the Wedding is a perfectly unsettling debut, bringing the sense that all is about to go to smash coupled with a story so compelling you'll lose sleep desperate to know what happens next. Gauntlett's elegant writing weaves seamlessly between past and present, intertwining joy and fear until dread takes over completely. And that dread oozes from the pages. This is the book everyone will be talking about this year. Outstanding -- J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of It’s One of Us

About the Author

A. E. Gauntlett completed an MA in English Literature at King's College, London in 2010, before joining the publishing industry as a literary agent. The Stranger at the Wedding is his debut thriller, written in secret while agenting the work of numerous bestselling authors of his own.