Breaking Bad’s Krysten Ritter Explores ‘Dark Side’ of a Con Artist’s Mind in New Thriller Novel (Exclusive)

Krysten Ritter is returning to the thriller style with a brand new e-book.

The Breaking Unhealthy actress introduced completely with PEOPLE that she’s going to publish her second novel, Retreat, by means of HarperCollins Publishers in 2026. The e-book is co-written with Lindsay Jamieson.

“I’m actually enthusiastic about this e-book,” Ritter tells PEOPLE. “It’s been a few years within the making, and it’s been so enjoyable to write down.”

Ritter, identified for her roles on Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Don’t Belief the B—- in House 23 and Breaking Unhealthy, revealed her suspenseful debut novel, Bonfire, in 2017. Retreat follows Liz Dawson, a con artist used to mixing into crowds. After she’s supplied a job within the house of Isabelle Beresford, a rich girl with a villa on the Mexican coast, Liz jumps on the likelihood for a contemporary begin and to give up grifting for good.

When Liz is by chance mistaken for Isabelle, nonetheless, she is pulled again into her outdated methods, and takes on Isabelle’s id. As Liz goes deeper into Isabelle’s life and the resort group the place she lives, she involves see the hazard that follows Isabelle — and which can quickly turn out to be part of her personal life.

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Ritter, who at the moment stars on the AMC+ sequence Orphan Black: Echoes, has created memorable characters throughout tv, and the actress tells PEOPLE that it’s no completely different in her writing.

“I’ve at all times been into complicated and layered feminine characters and needed to discover the angle of a con artist — how straightforward and seductive it may be to flee into one other life, but additionally the darkish facet of dropping your self,” Ritter says. “I hope readers take pleasure in all of the twists in retailer!”

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Retreat shall be revealed on March 1, 2026 and is now out there for preorder, wherever books are offered.