Taut, menacing, sinister, gripping, intelligent, action-packed – everything you could want from a thriller.
When ex-LAPD patrol cop Jack Whalen’s wife goes missing on a routine business trip to Seattle, his world is shaken.
Meanwhile, a ten-year-old girl vanishes from a beach in Oregon after an encounter with a sinister stranger – but it gradually becomes clear that she’s very far from defenceless.
Searching for answers in the shadowy secrets of a past that still haunts him, Jack discovers that the truth has roots deeper and darker than he ever feared.
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Michael Marshall is a novelist and screenwriter. Before writing the internationally bestselling novels ‘The Straw Men’, The Lonely Dead’ and ‘Blood of Angels’, he had already established a successful career under the name Michael Marshall Smith: his groundbreaking first novel, ‘Only Forward’, won the Philip K. Dick and August Derleth Awards, and its critically acclaimed successors ‘Spares’ and ‘One of Us’ have been optioned by major Hollywoood studios. He lives in North London with his wife, son and two cats.
They’re already inside…
The stunning new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Straw Men.
When ex-LAPD patrol cop Jack Whalen's wife goes missing on a routine business trip to Seattle, his world is shaken. Jack sets out to search for her, only to discover that there is something far more mysterious going on than her disappearance.
Meanwhile, a ten-year-old girl vanishes from a beach in Oregon after an encounter with a sinister stranger. It gradually becomes clear, however, that she's very far from defenceless…
Searching for answers in the shadowy secrets of a past that still haunts him, Jack discovers that the truth has roots deeper and darker than he ever feared.
'A jaw-dropping mystery that makes a hairpin turn on nearly every page' Entertainment Weekly
'A taut thriller, with lots of action … gripping' Guardian
'Sinister' Mirror
'Menacing' Time Out
‘Subtle, satisfying - and really scary.' Kirkus Reviews
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