Author:Katia Lief
Your time is up...
Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts.
The only man her family can turn to for help is retired FBI profiler John Geary. But Geary suspects she's been taken by a serial killer who targets mothers. Every seven years he strikes, enacting a gruesome ritual. And Geary knows that there's much worse to come....
Emily has five days left. Five days of waiting. Five days of hell. Five days before the killer returns for her son...
The ultimate race-against-the-clock thriller
—— Lisa Gardnertightly plotted thriller . . . finely drawn characterisations and taut, clean storytelling make this an enjoyable read
—— Publishers WeeklyFive Days to Die has it all: an attractive female detective, a crusty FBI profiler, and the scariest killer you'll never want to meet
—— Leslie GlassKatia Lief has an amazing eye for detail . . . clever and realistic – a gripping, poignant portrayal of an innocent family caught in a nightmare of evil
—— Anne FrasierI put Five Days to Die aside only once . . . to make sure my doors were locked
—— Barbara ParkerEspecially hard to put down . . .had this reviewer looking over her shoulder in her quiet apartment . . .the plot really cooks
—— The Mystery ReaderA truly impressive writer
—— We Love This BookExtraordinary, sometimes very funny, and extremely evocative… Powerfully evocative
—— Peter Hitchens , Mail OnlineWonderfully unique
—— The TimesIt’s rare to feel so completely inside someone’s head
—— PsychologiesElanor Dymott's arresting debut...combines the pleasures of a thriller with an elegiac meditation on the trials of youth
—— The LadyA dark clever campus novel that draws the reader into a skilfully woven web of half-told stories... Crafted and elegantly written
—— MetroDymott’s capacity to conjure striking imagery is exceptional. This is more than a murder mystery. It’s an examination of the subjectivity of accounts of truth. It’s a desperately moving love story about a lonely man who finds salvation in another only to have his idyll destroyed. It's a tale of revenge, served cold and deadly
—— IndependentThis is a love story, told in reverse, a haunting tale of youth and lost love, and a poetical thriller.A powerful debut and a distinctive voice
—— Tom HollanderElanor Dymott’s gorgeous debut novel is a murder mystery that’s also a brilliant meditation on love and memory and loss. Like the Robert Browning poems her characters read at Oxford, the book is spooky, lovesick, dark, and lush, its narrator circling obsessively back on the death at its heart
—— Maile MeloyAn irresistible blast of an opening which never disappoints in a journey into a complex knot of intense and ultimately destructive relationships from which the murder that is the dark core ofThis excellent debut novel distills
—— Jon SnowA beautiful, lucid nightmare of a book. A mystery of love and murder that is elegantly written, disturbing, always compelling, and lingers long in the mind
—— Adam FouldsA literary thriller wrapped up in a whodunit love story, Elanor Dymott's debut makes for compulsive reading. The complexity of the plot put me in mind of The Secret History;
it deserves to reach just as wide an audience
Every Contact Leaves a Trace is beautifully paced, from the graphic event at its start through all its shifting possibilities to its strange, logical conclusion. It is a marvelous book
—— Bernard O’DonoghueErudite debut
—— IndependentThis murder mystery...gripped me with unusual force... This novel sucks you in beautifully, and will not let you go
—— Evening StandardThis is a class act which unveils its secrets as tantalisingly as a courtesan
—— John Koski , Daily Mail IrelandWonderfully evocative of Oxford, this is a love story and a mystery that will keep you guessing
—— Good Book GuidePart love story, part murder mystery… Dymott’s novel is ample proof of the literary flair that lurks within some lawyers
—— Alex Wade , The TimesOne of the best books I’ve read this year
—— Edinburgh Evening News