This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan

This Is How It Ends by Eva Dolan

Three hundred gone. Just six left.

The building was once home to families, friends, children, couples, love, life. Now, almost every apartment is empty, the inhabitants forced out by the developers tearing down the old social housing to build luxury homes.

Only a few of the inhabitants have fought back against the attempts to evict them from their homes and their histories. And they have been joined by passionate student protester and would-be journalist, Ella, who is leading a high-profile media campaign to protect those who refuse to leave.

One night, Ella returns home to find a horrible scene awaiting her-the dead body of a mysterious man. Panicked, she calls her neighbor Molly, who convinces her that the police won't believe she's innocent. Together the two women concoct a gruesome plan to hide the body.

But the secret won't stay buried for long. As truth hangs in the balance, a neighbor tells Molly he had heard Ella arguing with a man in the hallway and mistrust grows between Ella and Molly, as repercussions of that night threaten to change both women's lives forever.

While Eva Dolan was a teenager, she was nominated for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger for unpublished authors. The Zigic and Ferreira crime series, which stars two detectives from Peterborough's Hate Crimes Unit, first aired in 2014 and has since been optioned for British television. The second and third books in the series, Tell No Tales and After You Die, were both shortlisted for Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award, and After You Die was also longlisted for the renowned CWA Gold Dagger. Her first standalone mystery is This Is How It Ends. Dolan is a resident of Essex, UK.