Killing Me Softly is a psychological thriller by writing team Nicci French from 1999.

Alice Loudon, a pharmaceutical researcher who lives in London, leaves her boyfriend Jake to marry Adam Tallis, a mountain climber she met only recently.

A woman who read an article about the rescue claimed to have been raped by Adam, but he has been acquitted.

Publishers Weekly: "With lucid and limber prose, French delves into Alice's thoughts as skillfully as she describes the London setting.

"[1] In Kaige Chen's film adaptation of 2002 Heather Graham played Alice, and Joseph Fiennes Adam.