The Crooked House - Softcover

Christobel Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0751556998 ISBN 13: 9780751556995

Publisher: Sphere, 2015

Synopsis

Crooked House

About this title

About the Author:

Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.

Review:

A darkly impressive novel...The sinister, windswept town of Saltleigh is a brooding backdrop, and the characters are sharply drawn. * The Lady * Gripped from the first page, the reader is taken on a tense, menacing and atmospheric journey culminating in a startling revelation. * Good Book Guide * Creepily claustrophobic, the story builds to a thrilling climax, and combined with Kent's surefooted plotting, atmospheric prose and firm grasp pf psychology, the novel is a rare triumph. However it's the kind of book that comes with a serious warning...[it's] impossible to put down. * Cheltenham Standard * A psychological thriller of the highest quality. * Absolutely magazine * A spine-tingling and haunting tale. * Peterborough Evening Telegraph * Beautiful, atmospheric writing with a perfectly unravelled mystery. * SJI Holliday, author of BLACK WOOD * Sinister...Christobel Kent always writes with skill and elegance. * Literary Review * Almost indecently good. A psychological page-turner imbued with depth and humanity. Broadchurch meets Rebecca. I loved it. * Allison Pearson, author of I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT * Terrific, powerful and unsettling; I read it with my heart in my mouth. * Jill Dawson, author of THE TELL TALE HEART * Brilliant, dark and vivid and almost unbearably suspenseful with an atmospheric setting in the wild estuary village and a sense of menace and claustrophobia as the local community clings to its secrets. * Cath Staincliffe, author of LETTERS TO MY DAUGHTER'S KILLER * The Crooked House hooks the reader though the gut from the first dark page. * Rowan Pelling * A gripping thriller, beautifully unfolded, with gorgeous, evocative writing that builds to a shattering climax. * Erin Kelly, author of THE BURNING AIR and BROADCHURCH: THE NOVEL * Gripping. * Hello magazine * Tense, menacing, surprising and clever. * Morning Star * Oh my goodness - what a book! So beautifully tense... just glorious. * Clare Mackintosh, author of I LET YOU GO * [A] dark psychologically chilling tale...The spin of wheels within wheels is mesmerising, ratcheted when Alison revisits the house of old, dark secrets, and the threads of false memory in her life of anonymity are unpicked. Nothing is as it seemed to be. * SAGA magazine * A gripping story of dark secrets. * Image magazine * Beware sleep deprivation. Christobel Kent is one mesmerising writer. A brilliant thriller. * Alex Marwood, author of THE WICKED GIRLS * Thrilling. * The Sun * Packed with well-drawn characters, full of atmosphere, twists, turns and menace, this dark psychological chiller has an ending that leaves the heart pounding. * Choice magazine * This complex, fascinating psychological thriller has a real twist at the end. * Bella magazine * An atmospheric psychological thriller about a community full of secrets. * Elle magazine * Demands to be devoured in one sitting. * Good Housekeeping * Echoes of Christie and du Maurier in this fine thriller. * Sunday Times * God, I literally could not put this down. Teenage girl hides upstairs as someone massacres her entire family. Fast forward and she has a new name and a new identity, and a new boyfriend who invites her to a wedding...which is taking place in the town where the massacre occurred. For various reasons, she can't not go. At this point you cancel dinner, curl up on the sofa and pull an all-nighter. Christobel Kent is a brilliant writer. * India Knight on The Crooked House * Compulsive, unsettling and scary as hell. * Sunday Mirror * Atmospheric and eerily menacing, this cracking psychological thriller demands to be read with all the lights on. * Psychologies Magazine on The CROOKED HOUSE * Brilliant...A spooky, gripping and affecting story. * Louise Doughty, author of APPLE TREE YARD in the GUARDIAN * An utterly compulsive psychological thriller. I loved it. * SJ Watson, author of BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP *

About this edition

• Publisher: Sphere
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0751556998
• ISBN 13: 9780751556995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 401