Daisy Darker

Daisy Darker is the narrator of Alice Feeney's psychological thriller of the same name — a young woman born with a heart condition who has always felt peripheral to her glamorous, high-achieving family. When grandmother Nana Darker gathers all four generations of the family at her remote tidal island estate in Cornwall for her eightieth birthday — an island cut off by the tide for hours at a time — and family members begin dying one by one, Daisy's outsider perspective is both her protection and her burden.

Feeney constructs Daisy Darker as a classic locked-world mystery — the tidal island cuts the family off as effectively as any locked room, the cast of suspects is finite and intimately known to each other, and the secrets accumulated across decades of family history provide ample motive for anyone. The structure consciously echoes the Golden Age country house mystery tradition.

Feeney's twist endings are her signature, and Daisy Darker deploys its revelations with characteristic patience — the final reframings of what the reader has been told are prepared carefully across the entire novel, making the ending satisfying rather than arbitrary.

A standalone psychological thriller from the author of Sometimes I Lie and His & Hers.