Before You Die - Softcover

Hayes, Samantha

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2,406 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780891512 ISBN 13: 9781780891514

Publisher: Century, 2014

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A spate of teenage suicides appear to be taking place in rural Warwickshire. DI Lorraine Fisher must find out whether they'’re suicide or murder. A gripping new thriller by the author of Until You’'re Mine. If you're a fan of Before I Go to Sleep, you will love this.
     Five years previously, nineteen-year-old Simon Hawkeswell hung himself at his family home. He had had the perfect life, and seemed to have the perfect future ahead of him. As the years pass, the reasons behind his death remain a mystery.
     Present day, and Simon’'s parents and his local community remain haunted by his death and by the spate of ‘sympathetic’ suicides among teenagers in the area that followed. But this is all over now –or is it: a question that becomes particularly relevant when a young homeless man is killed in a freak motorbike accident, and the authorities find a suicide note in his belongings.
     Can this be the beginning of more suicides? Detective Inspector Lorraine Fisher has just arrived to stay with her sister in rural Warwickshire. The atmosphere within the house is tense and edgy: Lorraine’'s sister Jo is having an extra-marital affair, and her teenage son, Freddie, seems troubled and uncommunicative.
     A second homeless lad takes his own life, this time on the railway tracks outside the village. And when Freddie disappears, Lorraine knows she must act quickly if she'’s to ascertain whether the teenage deaths are suicide –or murder. And if she'’s to find Freddie, before it'’s too late.

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About the Author:

SAMANTHA HAYES grew up in the West Midlands, left school at sixteen, avoided university and took jobs ranging from being a private detective to barmaid to fruit picker and factory worker. She lived on a kibbutz, and spent time in Australia and the USA, before finally becoming a crime-writer. Her writing career began when she won a short story competition in 2003. Her novels are family-based psychological thrillers, with the emphasis being on 'real life fiction'. She focuses on current issues, and when she writes, she sets out to maker her reader ask, 'What if this happened to me or my family?' With three children of her own, Samantha is well-versed to talk about how the aftershocks of crime impact upon families and communities.

Review:

"Last year's excellent Until You're Mine was a surprise word-of-mouth bestseller, and Samantha Hayes' chilling follow-up looks set to be another runaway success... You'll be hooked to this one well into the early hours of the morning!" * Essentials * "This new novel from the author of Until You're Mine is packed with twists that will leave you gripped until the end!" * Closer * "A corking read, featuring a cop you'll warm to." * Weekly Sport * "Last year's excellent Until You're Mine was a surprise word-of-mouth bestseller, and Samantha Hayes' chilling follow-up looks set to be another runaway success... You'll be hooked to this one well into the early hours of the morning!" * Essentials * "This new novel from the author of Until You're Mine is packed with twists that will leave you gripped until the end!" * Closer *

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