Book description
When her plane is delayed overnight, Gaby Struthers finds herself
forced to share a hotel room with a stranger: a terrified young woman
named Lauren Cookson - but why is she scared of Gaby in particular?
Lauren won't explain. Instead, she blurts out something about an
innocent man going to prison for a murder he didn't commit, and Gaby
soon suspects that Lauren's presence on her flight can't be a
coincidence. Because the murder victim is Francine Breary, the wife of
the only man Gaby has ever truly loved. Tim Breary has confessed, and
even provided the police with evidence. The only thing he hasn't given
them is a motive. He claims to have no idea why he murdered his wife . .
. 'One of the great unmissables of this genre - intelligent, classy
and with a wonderfully Gothic imagination.' Sophie Hannah is a
bestselling crime fiction writer and poet. Her psychological thrillers
Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point of Rescue, The Other Half
Lives, A Room Swept White, Lasting Damage
and Kind of Cruel
have received critical acclaim and have been translated into more than
twenty languages. Sophie's books have been listed for multiple industry
awards. Little Face
was longlisted for the 2007 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the
Year Award and the IMPAC Award, Hurting Distance
was longlisted for the 2008 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the
Year Award, and The Other Half Lives
was shortlisted for the Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award
and a Barry Award. The Point of Rescue
and The Other Half Lives
have been adapted for television as Case Sensitive
, starring Olivia Williams and Darren Boyd. Sophie's fifth collection of
poetry, Pessimism for Beginners
, was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Choice in 2007 and was
shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award, and in 2004 she won first prize in
the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her
psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest
. Sophie's poetry is studied at GCSE, A-level and degree level across
the UK. From 1997 to 1999 she was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at
Trinity College, Cambridge, and between 1999 and 2001 she was a fellow
of Wolfson College, Oxford. She is currently a Fellow Commoner at Lucy
Cavendish College, Cambridge. She lives in Cambridge with her husband
and two children. Visit Sophie's website, www. sophiehannah. com, and
follow her on Twitter at twitter. com/sophiehannahCB1
