The Point of Rescue

Sally is watching the news with her husband when she hears a name she ought not to recognise: Mark Bretherick. Last year, a work trip Sally had planned was cancelled at the last minute. Desperate for a break from her busy life juggling work and a young family, Sally didn't tell her husband that the trip had fallen through. Instead, she booked a week off work and treated herself to a secret holiday. All she wanted was a bit of peace -- some time to herself -- but it didn't work out that way. Because Sally met a man -- Mark Bretherick. All the details are the same: where he lives, his job, his wife Geraldine and daughter Lucy. Except that the man on the news is a man Sally has never seen before. And Geraldine and Lucy Bretherick are both dead ...

Sophie Hannah is a best-selling, award-winning poet. She regularly performs her poetry live to audiences nationwide and abroad, and recently won first prize in the Daphne Du Maurier Festival Short Story Competition for her psychological suspense story The Octopus Nest. Little Face was a phenomenal word-of-mouth bestseller, and Hurting Distance, her second psychological crime novel has received brilliant critical acclaim. The Point of Rescue is her third novel. Sophie lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and two children.