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Lasting Damage

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It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago.

Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room . . .

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Critics Review

An assured psychological thriller of murderous domestic deceit.
Financial Times
A beautifully written and entirely gripping take from beginning to end.
Heat
As addictively creepy as her previous thrillers
Independent on Sunday
Sophie Hannah scores on all counts . . . Confidence oozes from every taut chapter . . . Hannah's relish of every delicious twist and tweak is one of the very few things that are clear in this cryptic game of hide and seek.
Scotsman
Jaw-droppingly assured. Simon Waterhouse...is destined to be up there with the Poirots, the Marples and the Sherlock Holmeses of detective fiction if Hannah keeps up this standard of writing. This reader was left speechless with admiration.
Daily Express
Hannah's latest psychological thriller combines quirky police procedural with shrewdly observed domestic deceit. Told with confidence and panache, Hannah challenges the reader to work out who the paranoiac of the piece really is.
Independent
Sophie Hannah's excellent psychological thrillers derive much of their appeal from her knack for coming up with the sort of opening situation that instantly puts the reader in the literary equivalent of an armlock . . . Hannah is very good indeed at giving a modern twist to the familiar woman-in-peril theme.
Spectator
Praise for Sophie Hannah
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Hannah takes domestic scenarios, adds disquieting touches and turns up the suspense until you're checking under the bed for murders
Independent
It's a given that nothing will be as it seems in the latest psychological thriller from Sophie Hannah, who marries complex plots with crisp, conversational prose
Marie Claire
As Hannah sees it things are rarely clear cut and it is this moral ambivalence that makes her fiction so provocative
Daily Express
Full of twists and turns, and terrifying, too.
Heat
Author Sophie Hannah
Narrator Emma Kay, Simon Slater
Series Culver Valley Crime
Duration 13 hours and 21 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781444722505
Format Audiobook
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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