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Panic Room

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Panic Room by Robert Goddard, read by Hollie Taylor and John Sackville.

Sometimes the danger is on the inside . . .

High on a Cornish cliff sits a vast uninhabited mansion. Uninhabited except for Blake, a young woman of dubious background, secretive and alone, currently acting as housesitter.

The house has a panic room. Cunningly concealed, steel lined, impregnable – and apparently closed from within. Even Blake doesn’t know it’s there. She’s too busy being on the run from life, from a story she thinks she’s escaped.

But her remote existence is going to be invaded when people come looking for the house’s owner, missing rogue pharma entrepreneur, Jack Harkness. Suddenly the whole world wants to know where his money has gone. Soon people are going to come knocking on the door, people with motives and secrets of their own, who will be asking Blake the sort of questions she can’t – or won’t – want to answer.

And will the panic room ever give up its secrets?

PANIC ROOM is Robert Goddard at his nerve-shredding best. A sliver of a mystery kicks off a juggernaut of a thriller. Layers of secrets, half truths and lies must be peeled back to reveal what really lies within.

'The world's greatest storyteller' Guardian

‘Is this his best yet?...Full of sinister menace and propulsive pace with twisty plotting’ Lee Child

Critics Review

Is this his best yet? For years Robert Goddard has been my go-to guy for a certain kind of storytelling, full of easy charm blended with sinister menace, and propulsive pace with twisty plotting
Lee Child
Splendidly serpentine and immaculately plotted, this is thriller writing at its very best
Daily Mail
Robert Goddard has been writing imaginative first-class thrillers for nearly 30 years . . . Panic Room is an absorbing example of his superior storytelling, an excellent read
The Times
This is a tense read, fill of characteristic Goddard twists
Guardian
As always, Goddard can be relied upon to entertain
The Literary Review
A well-constructed page-turner of a thriller that’s very hard to put down
Choice magazine
'[An] ingeniously twisted eco-thriller'
The Times
Author Robert Goddard
Narrator Hollie Taylor, John Sackville
Duration 12 hours and 49 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473564268
Format Audiobook
Publisher Transworld
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Narrative theme: Environmental issues, Psychological thriller
Availability AU, GB, IE

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