Author: Nicci French

Thriller / suspense

Published on 12 February 2026 by Simon & Schuster Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 448 pages
163 x 242 x 35 | 614g

‘A pedal-to-the-metal white-knuckle thrill-ride that leaves you wrung out and breathless from sheer exhilaration’ Christopher BrookmyreThe new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter? and the Frieda Klein series.

Some friendships don’t survive the truth.

Nearly thirty years ago, Tyler Green was convicted of killing his university friend Leo Bauer. Now, newly released from prison, he is determined to face the past – and the friends who were there the night everything changed.

But when one of them is found dead soon after their reunion, suspicion falls immediately on Tyler. If he killed once, surely he could kill again. As Detective Maud O’Connor investigates, the truth about that night begins to unravel – revealing secrets no one wanted exposed. Can Tyler ever truly escape his past, or is history about to repeat itself?Taut, atmospheric, and psychologically razor-sharp, What Happened That Night confirms Nicci French as masters of suspense.

 PRAISE FOR NICCI FRENCH‘No one does it better than Nicci French’ LEE CHILD ‘Perfection’ SOPHIE HANNAH ‘Unputdownable’ ERIN KELLY ‘Powerful, moving and wise . . . I loved it’ JO CALLAGHAN ‘Expertly paced, psychologically sharp, thoroughly enjoyable’ LOUISE CANDLISH ‘No-one does the dark distortion of good intentions like Nicci French’ CARA HUNTER ‘French always excels at depicting an ordinary life swept away by horror’ OBSERVER ‘First-class’ INDEPENDENT