Author:Manda Scott
Midnight in Glasgow is not the best time to be faced with a dead body. Particularly if the body in question is your ex-lover and the woman grieving at her bedside used to be your friend. Add a corpse packed with Temazepam, a genetic engineer with an unstable past and a killer on the loose with a knife and you have all the reason you need to walk away and never come back. Glasgow therapist Dr Kellen Stewart has put the past behind her: medical career, relationship, life on the farm in the country. Thenthe phone rings and Bridget is dead – the only lover who ever counted.The local doctor says it's a heart attack, the police think it's suicide. Kellen knows that it's neither but is she willing to rake up the past to prove it? Dragged into a world of rogue doctors, bent genetic engineers and killers who gut their victims as a warning, Kellen must face her own past as much as the very real terrors of the present to stop the killing – or she'll be next.
One of the century's great yarn-spinners...marvellously evocative...another manifestation of the Innes genius
—— Sydney HeraldHammond Innes… surely the doyen of the well-made modern thriller
—— Daily TelegraphMr Innes' work stands in a class by itself
—— New StatesmanHammond Innes deals magnificently with disaster
—— ObserverTaut, compelling... a storming read
—— The Bookseller Books of the Year 2013One sitting, much tea and several hours later I was still totally drawn in by the high-octane drama . . . I devoured it
—— StylistPatterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.
—— NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWPatterson is in a class by himself.
—— VANITY FAIRA wonderful story, a superb debut... Whatever you do stick with it, this is a remarkable book and deserves to be read.
—— Miles Orchard , milorambles.co.uka superb & accomplished debut, beautifully written & with a heart of sadness ... Loved it! ... Great debut
—— Stav SherezPart Lisbeth Salander, part Jason Bourne, Munroe comes out swinging hard again. . . . A gritty, suspenseful novel.
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