Dear Amy: The Sunday Times Bestselling Psychological Thriller - Hardcover

Helen Callaghan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718183754 ISBN 13: 9780718183752

Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A teenage girl's abduction stirs dark memories of a twenty-year-old cold case... Margot Lewis is a teacher at an exclusive high school in the English university town of Cambridge. In her spare time, she writes an advice column, ""Dear Amy"", for the local newspaper. When one of Margot's students, fifteen-year-old Katie, disappears, the school and the town fear the worst. And then Margot gets a ""Dear Amy"" letter unlike any of the ones she's received before. It's a desperate plea for rescue from a girl who says she is being held captive and in terrible danger-a girl called Bethan Avery, who was abducted from the local area twenty years ago and never found. The letter matches a sample of Bethan's handwriting that the police have kept on file since she vanished, and this shocking development in an infamous cold case catches the attention of criminologist Martin Forrester, who has been trying to find out what happened to her all those years ago. Spurred on by her concern for both Katie and the mysterious Bethan, Margot sets out-with Martin's help-to discover if the two cases are connected. But then Margot herself becomes a target.

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About the Author

Helen Callaghan was born in Los Angeles, California, to British parents, and her early years were spent in both the US and UK. After several early false starts as a nurse, barmaid and actor, she settled into bookselling, working as a fiction specialist and buyer for a variety of bookshops. Eventually, she studied for her A-levels at night school and achieved a place at Cambridge University as a mature student. Dear Amy is her debut novel. www.helencallaghan.co.uk @HECallagham

Review

FIRST CLASS PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE FROM A MAJOR NEW VOICE IN FICTION When Margot starts receiving mysterious letters to her 'Dear Amy' agony aunt column, she dismisses them as a cruel hoax. But as the present-day search intensifies for another missing schoolgirl, the letters seem to contain vital information to find both girls. Would your advice save someone's life? from the publisher's description Dear Amy sets up a terrific, tricky premise and then delivers the suspense thriller readers hope for-a tense plot, imaginative twists, and smart writing -- Julia Heaberlin, author of bestselling Black-Eyed Susans An accomplished psychological twister Daily Mail I knew from the first page that this was going to be a brilliant book, and I wasn't wrong. A superb debut psychological thriller with an unusual and original premise which keeps the reader hooked until the last page -- Rachel Abbott, author of Kill Me Again Well written and pacey Sunday Mirror Dear Amy is accomplished, engaging and utterly thrilling; beautifully written, with a narrator who manages to be both vulnerable and fierce at the same time. I found myself cheering her on at every gut-wrenching turn. The breathtaking finale is the most exciting and terrifying thing I have read in a very long time -- Elizabeth Haynes, bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner This is a clever psychological thriller Red You'll be hooked Fabulous Will keep you turning the pages Essentials Skilfully handled. A promising debut Event Magazine, Daily Mail

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0718183754
• ISBN 13: 9780718183752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400