Product details
- ISBN 9780008739263
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
'My favourite book I've read this year' FIVE star reader review
'It’s great fun! A new spin on a classic mystery with plenty of humour' FIVE star reader review
'An absolute cracker of a book' FIVE star reader review
'This book had me squealing so much! I honestly could not put it down' FIVE star reader review
'I kept fighting the urge to speed through because I was having so much fun!' FIVE star reader review
* * * *
It’s the perfect plot. All it needs is a killer ending.
Six authors. One private island. Seventy-two hours to write the ending.
World-famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won’t write itself.
When six struggling authors are invited to Fletch's private Scottish island and presented with the opportunity of a lifetime, the plot thickens: whoever writes a worthy ending will receive a game-changing book deal and two million dollars.
Why have they been chosen to attend? Who is behind the invitation? And just how far would they go to secure a place on the bestseller list?
They have just seventy-two hours, a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write…
Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder.
Perfect if you love:
Murder/locked-room mysteries
Killer DEADlines
Amateur Sleuths
Deadly Competitions
Forced Proximity
Plot to Die For
* * * *
Praise for THE ENDING WRITES ITSELF:
‘In the running for the best mystery of 2026’ STEPHEN KING
‘A cracking read' VAL MCDERMID
‘Smart, original and completely addictive’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
‘There were so many things I loved about this intelligent crime novel’ RED MAGAZINE
‘Slick, sharp and wickedly fun’ LUCY CLARKE
It was a dark and stormy night (well, it was actually an unusually warm evening in Edinburgh, Scotland) when Number One Sunday Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, known for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, proposed an absurd idea to longtime friend and screenwriter Cat Clarke: that they should write a book together. Victoria had made quite a name for herself, but had sworn she’d never co-write a novel.
While Cat, following a tumultuous career as an editor and the author of several YA novels, including Girlhood and Entangled, had fled the publishing industry to work in the even more tumultuous film industry, swearing she’d never return to books.
And yet, fate – and an irresistible idea – made liars of them both.
That night, Evelyn Clarke was born.
