Author:Jane Hill
Stumbling headlong into a passionate fling and an impromptu marriage to music star Trey, Maeve's life is about to change beyond recognition. Trey wants to whisk her off to his country house in North Carolina and Maeve follows him without a backward glance.
But when she first lays eyes on her new home -- a dilapidated old cabin in the middle of nowhere -- she begins to feel uneasy. Nothing quite matches up to what she's been led to expect and, below the surface, a dark secret lies buried that has never been resolved. Too late Maeve realizes that she is all alone in a strange country, sharing a life with a man she hardly knows ...
Prepare to be sucked in and swept along by this chilling white-water rapid of a thriller
—— CosmopolitanBy turns playful and poignant, sexy and sinister, Hill's darkly comedic portrait of a woman scorned packs a captivating surprise
—— BooklistA new voice in psychological suspense fiction
—— Daily MailA sensational new addition to the psychological thriller shelves
—— Daily RecordA thrilling tale
—— The LadyPopular fiction at its best
—— The Washington PostThis is a book full of surprising discoveries and reversals, but also a fascinating portrait of a society closer to fracture than anyone is prepared to admit...One of the novel's strength's is that it values intelligence, and the process of analytic thought as much as it does the sensational moments
—— Roz Kaveney , IndependentPearl's is an ambitious project; literary criticism, biography, reconstruction, reportage and fiction, all in one volume...Where else could you find all this and disquisitions on the slave trade, voter fraud in local elections and the workings of the US postal system? And the truth about Edgar Allan Poe's death?
—— Nicola Smyth , Independent on SundayFascinating reading
—— The TimesThis is a story not for people who like reading novels but for the much larger number who like solving puzzles
—— Sunday TelegraphBruen's tightly coiled prose strikes like a piss-soaked rattler.
—— CapitalSharp, punch and unsettling, Priest is a masterpiece.
—— Peterborough Evening Telegraph... An intensely dark maelstrom ... excellent.
—— www.marymartin.com.auBruen should be valued as one of the most challenging and memorable writers in the genre at the moment.
—— www.reviewingtheevidence.com