I Would Die for You

A Novel

By: Sandie Jones

Narrated by: Imogen Wilde

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick The Other Woman and The Guilt Trip comes an electrifying next novel.

California, 2011: Nicole Forbes lives a quiet life in the small seaside town of Coronado with her husband and daughter. She is not expecting a writer to knock on her door asking for her personal insight into the downfall of the biggest British band of the 1980s—unveiling the threads of a life she left behind years ago. The same day, her daughter goes missing and the school claims her aunt picked her up . . . but she doesn’t have an aunt. Convinced of a link between the two, Nicole is forced to revisit long-abandoned memories from her past to protect everything she now holds dear.

London, 1986: Sixteen-year-old Cassie is obsessed with Secret Oktober, the hottest band of the moment. Harboring an intense crush on the leading man, Ben Edwards, she will do anything she can to capture his attention among the throngs of groupies at the band’s scandalous backstage parties. But when Ben discovers her older sister Nicole singing at a local bar one night, he can’t help but feel drawn to her, setting in motion a collision course that could tear their family apart.

Infused with the sounds of the 80s, this thrilling novel from the inimitable Sandie Jones explores the chaos that the frenzy of fandom can provoke.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

Critic reviews

One of BookBub’s “Must-Read Mysteries and Thrillers of 2025”

This book was awful.

I’m baffled as to why or how it achieved good reviews. I’m tired of when authors create characters who continue to do the same stupid things over and over. The continual back and forth between decades always makes for a disjointed tale. The evil behind the motives of more than one character was hard to take. This is not a feel-good book.

It’s bad

It’s bad. Just, bad.
The entire book is the main character saying, “if the truth came out,” and building suspense, just to repeat the process.
When the truth is finally dropped, not slowly discovered, but just dropped amid 12 different twists, there’s immediately another twist, and the book ends on a cliff hanger.

After chapter 12, there’s absolutely nothing that could happen worth the suspense the author has built up, which makes the next 15, “the truth, gasp!” References anti-climactic at best, but mostly just feels like slogging through half the book to - gasp! Not have a conclusion.
No conclusion, no round up, no explanation, just an invisible character with another suspenseful twist.
Save your time. Eat a sandwich.