Halfway House (eBook)

The nerve-shatteringly tense, searingly funny new thriller from the author of Netflix hit, THE CRY

Helen FitzGerald (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
276 Seiten
Orenda Books (Verlag)
978-1-914585-71-5 (ISBN)

Infos

On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage … and that's just the beginning… The twisty, shocking, darkly funny thriller by award-winning author Helen FitzGerald.
`A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event … magnificent´ Mark Billingham
`Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell – this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form´ Doug Johnstone
`[Lou] is irresistible and very funny … The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing´ Literary Review
_______
They`re the housemates from Hell…
When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O´Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.
Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer – all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou…
And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything – including her life.
Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman…
__________________________
`Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny … an amazingly talented writer´ Michael Wood
`A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity´ B M Carroll
Praise for Helen FitzGerald
**Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**
`Sharp, shocking and savagely funny´ Chris Whitaker
`Dark, dark, deliciously dark´ Amanda Jennings
`Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling´ Miranda Dickinson
`The main character is one of the most extraordinary you`ll meet between the pages of a book´ Ian Rankin
`Sublime´ Guardian
`A dark, comic masterpiece´ Mark Edwards
`Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying´ Erin Kelly
`Tantalisingly powerful´ The Times
`The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist´ Heat
`FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth´ Daily Telegraph
`Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this´ Sun

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2024
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Krimi / Thriller
• Schlagworte: Action & Adventure Literary Fiction • Agnes Ravatn • A J Finn • alice feeney • Antti Tuomainen • Anxious People • Araminta Hall • Ash Mountain • Australia • b a paris • belinda bauer • bella mackie • Bestsellers • Black comedy • Bonnie Garmus • Candice Fox • Cara Hunter • Catherine Ryan Howard • Chris Brookmyre • Claire Allan • Clare Mackintosh • classic literary fiction • Contemporary fiction • Crime Thrillers & Mystery • Dark comedy • dark humour • Denise Mina • Doug Johnstone • Edinburgh • Elizabeth Day • Erin Kelly • Every Happy Family • Exiles • Gillian Flynn • gillian mcallister • Gilly Macmillan • Gytha Lodge • halfway house • Harlan Coben • Helen Fields • Helen Fitzgerald • hostage • how to kill your family • humorous fiction • Humour • Ian Rankin • Jane Fallon • Jane Harper • Jenny Lund Madsen • jo spain • Keep Her Sweet • kindle deals • Lessons in Chemistry • Liane Moriarty • Lisa Hall • lisa jewell • literary fiction • liz nugent • Louise Candlish • Louise Douglas • Magpie • Marian Keyes • Michael Robotham • Mick Herron • Moose Paradox • Mystery Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction • Netflix • nikki may • Noir Crime • Orenda Books • Paula Hawkins • psychological suspense • Psychological thriller • Rabbit Factor • Rachel Again • Richard & Judy • Richard Powers • Sally Diamond • sarah hilary • Sarah Stovell • Sarah Vaughan • Scotland • Scottish • Scottish Crime • S E Lynes • Shari Lapena • sharon bolton • Slow Horses • The Cliff House • The Cry • The Guests • The Last Passenger • the mother • The Only Suspect • Thirty Days of Darkness • Thriller • T M Logan • Val McDermid • wahala • Will Carver • Will Dean • World literature • worst case scenario
• ISBN-10: 1-914585-71-2 / 1914585712
• ISBN-13: 978-1-914585-71-5 / 9781914585715