Sarah Stovell

Bo Luxton has it all - a loving family, a beautiful home in the Lake District, and a clutch of bestselling books to her name. Enter Alice Dark, an aspiring writer who is drifting through life, with a series of dead-end jobs and a freeloading boyfriend. When they meet at a writers' retreat, the chemistry is instant, and a sinister relationship develops... Or does it? Breathlessly pacey, taut and terrifying, Exquisite is a startlingly original and unbalancing psychological thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last page.

Exquisite

A gritty, dark and devastating psychological thriller centring around three troubled girls in a children’s home, by the bestselling author of Exquisite ‘I was immediately ensnared into the devastating and dark world of The Home and devoured it in one day ... A triumph’ Holly Seddon ‘It’s both a clear-eyed and compassionate tale of the harm wreaked by commonplace abuse, and a mystery that grips to the final page’ Sunday Times ‘Gripping, sinister and utterly heartbreaking ... I absolutely loved it’ Lisa Hall _________________ One more little secret ... one more little lie... When the body of a pregnant fifteen-year-old is discovered in a churchyard on Christmas morning, the community is shocked, but unsurprised. For Hope lived in The Home, the residence of three young girls, whose violent and disturbing pasts have seen them cloistered away... As a police investigation gets underway, the lives of Hope, Lara and Annie are examined, and the staff who work at the home are interviewed, leading to shocking and distressing revelations ... and clear evidence that someone is seeking revenge. A gritty, dark and devastating psychological thriller, The Home is also an emotive drama and a piercing look at the underbelly of society, where children learn what they live ... if they are allowed to live at all. ________________ ‘So beautiful and haunting and ghostly and addictive and intense and sad and shocking. Just wow’ Louise Beech ‘This is a perfect illustration of how fiction really can inform life – read this, be moved, saddened but also enriched’ New Books Magazine ‘A vividly disturbing, eloquent and enthralling tale ... striking, thought-provoking, compulsive storytelling’ LoveReading

The Home

A hilarious drama about family secrets, perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty. ‘[A] gripping family tale... Stovell is a thoughtful, wise and witty writer’ Daily Mail

Every Happy Family

"I was beginning to realise that time didn't move forwards here. It just spun round and round, circling an old date, endlessly." So says seventeen-year-old Olivia who spends the summer at the home of her boarding school friend, the brilliant, distant, lonely Leila. Their intense relationship circles Leila's painful past: a dreadful accident when she was five, and then the sudden death of her infant brother four years later. Olivia meets Leila's childhood friend Rosie, a disturbing, manipulative influence, and Katherine, Leila's step-mother: bitter, damaged and unforgiving. Now on the verge of adulthood, Leila decides to confront her past and her family, but the atmosphere of blame and recrimination hangs as heavy as the summer heat and will prove more powerful than she could have ever imagined.

Mothernight

They all have opinions. They all have secrets. ‘PTA politics, school gate tensions, the perils of living in a small town where everyone knows your business – both funny and engaging while tackling some serious stuff.’ Jane Fallon

Other Parents

Kate Atkinson

Lisa Jackson

Rosalind Noonan

Joseph Knox

Alex Michaelides

Nancy Bush

Vincent Kliesch

Sven Koch

Prof. Dr. Michael Tsokos

Thorsten Kirves

Lieben Sie Nervenkitzel und Gefahr? Faszinieren Sie Mordfälle, die auf wahren Begebenheiten beruhen, wie im neuen True-Crime-Thriller von Michael Tsokos? Wollen Sie mehr über die psychologischen Abgründe einer Mörderin erfahren, die seit sieben Jahren in der geschlossenen psychiatrischen Anstalt sitzt? Sind Sie gespannt, wie Detective Aiden Waits in seinem zweiten Fall einen Mord aufdecken will, bei dem das Opfer nie existiert hat? Freuen Sie sich auf einen neuen, spannenden Küstenkrimi von Sven Koch? Oder ist es einfach mal wieder Zeit für eine Auszeit vom Alltag und damit für ein spannendes Buch? Hier sind Ihre mörderischen Aussichten für das Frühjahr 2019! Vorab-Leseproben zu den Crime-Titeln des Knaur Verlages, die im Frühjahr 2019 erscheinen. Nervenkitzel garantiert! Das kostenlose eBook enthält Leseproben zu: - Michael Tsokos »Abgeschlagen« - Alex Michaelides »Die stumme Patientin« - Joseph Knox »Smiling Man. Das Lächeln des Todes« - Thorsten Kirves »Der Aussteiger« - Sarah Stovell »Sie liebt mich. Sie liebt mich nicht.« - Sven Koch »Dünenblut« - Kate Atkinson »Deckname Flamingo« - Lisa Jackson »Greed - Tödliche Gier« - Vincent Kliesch »Auris«

Ausgewählte Leseproben von Michael Tsokos, Lisa Jackson, Joseph Knox, Sven Koch u.v.m.

Mörderische Aussichten: Thriller & Krimi bei Knaur

Two girls are brought together under the worst of circumstances: a prison ship taking them from London to 'parts beyond the sea'. Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in the hills of the North-West to the city to eke a living playing her tin-whistle in a place where her people are despised. When her mother dies - from cholera, the 'gypsy disease' - she's caught breaking-and-entering and sentenced to transportation. Rose has been brought up to expect more, but when her husband dies and her father is sent down for illegal slave-trading, she's separated from her children and forced to take a governess's job. When she's caught stealing, the judge shows no mercy. Surviving - just - an appalling voyage, the two arrive just after Christmas into the blinding sun of the strange new island: Van Dieman's Land. Here they are sent to work in a nursery, where women of ill-repute give birth before being sent for correction. The nursery is run by a corrupt, debauched Reverend and his idealistic son, who soon takes a fancy to Miriam. But Rose, her best friend and close confidant, watches jealously and makes plans to reverse their fortunes. The Night Flower takes the reader on a thrilling Dickensian adventure through the dark side of our penal history to a Tasmanian frontier town where anything could happen and morality is made by monsters.

The Night Flower

They all have opinions. They all have secrets. ‘Both funny and engaging while tackling some serious stuff’ Jane Fallon ‘Deft, wry and perceptive, this drama targets class and modern parenting’ Daily Mail

Two girls are brought together under the worst of circumstances: a prison ship taking them from London to parts beyond the sea. Miriam is a Romany girl drawn from freedom in the hills of the North-West to the city to eke a living playing her tin-whistle in a place where her people are despised. When her mother dies, she was caught breaking-and-entering and sentenced to transportation. Rose has been brought up to expect more, but when her husband dies and her father is sent down for illegal slave-trading, she was separated from her children and forced to take a governess's job. When she was caught stealing, the judge shows no mercy. Surviving - just - an appalling voyage, the two arrive just after Christmas into the blinding sun of the strange new island: Van Dieman's Land. Here they are sent to work in a nursery, where women of ill-repute give birth before being sent for correction. The nursery is run by a corrupt, debauched Reverend and his idealistic son, who soon takes a fancy to Miriam. But Rose, her best friend and close confidant, watches jealously and makes plans to reverse their fortunes. This book takes the reader on a thrilling Dickensian adventure through the dark side of our penal history to a Tasmanian frontier town where anything could happen and morality is made by monsters.

The night flower

Une amitié toxique sur fond de rivalité littéraire... Bo Luxton a tout – une famille aimante, une maison agréable dans le nord-ouest de l’Angleterre, et elle est l’auteure reconnue de plusieurs best-sellers. De son côté, Alice Dark aspire à devenir écrivain. Un peu paumée, elle accumule les boulots sans lendemain et vit aux crochets de son petit ami. Lorsqu’elles se rencontrent, à l’occasion d’un atelier d’écriture, une connexion immédiate, aussi étrange que magnétique, se crée entre elles. Peu à peu Bo et Alice entament une relation obsessionnelle, sombre et torturée – en tous les cas, c’est ce que l’une d’entre elles semble affirmer. Née en 1977, Sarah Stovell intervient en tant que conférencière dans le cursus de création littéraire à la Lincoln University. Valse avec Alice est son premier thriller psychologique.

un thriller dans la veine de Mary Kubica

Valse avec Alice

Ein trickreiches Psycho-Spannungs-Debüt aus England: Denn die beste Waffe ist Bosheit! Bo und Alice: Bestseller-Autorin die eine, höchst talentiert und noch ganz am Anfang ihrer Schriftsteller-Laufbahn die andere. Auf einem Schreibworkshop lernen sie sich kennen, und Bo beschließt sofort, Alice unter ihre Fittiche zu nehmen. Aber da ist noch mehr zwischen den beiden, prickelnd, knisternd – oder doch nicht? Wird Bo tatsächlich ihre Ehe und das Glück ihrer geliebten kleinen Töchter riskieren? Würde Alice ohne guten Grund ihr Leben zerschlagen, nur um in Bos Nähe sein zu können? Ein trickreiches Psycho-Duell und ein Meisterstück der Manipulation, das bis zur letzten Seite überrascht. Für Fans von Patricia Highsmith und Gillian Flynns »Gone Girl« - »Sarah Stovells Roman fühlt sich schon wie ein Sommer-Bestseller an!« The Times Crime Club

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