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Halfway House
The nerve-shatteringly tense, searingly funny new thriller from the author of Netflix hit, THE CRY
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On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage and thats 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
On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage
and thats 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