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A traumatized woman is living on a remote farm, looking for peace. One rain-swept night a stranger appears. He has no memory and no idea who he is. Tentatively the two form a relationship. Both dream of escape, change and redemption - but find they have opened the door to their worst nightmare.
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Carol's best friend was killed, horribly, by a serial killer and she has never forgiven herself. She has retreated to a lonely farm to lick her wounds, and one day she shoots and wounds a prowler; nursing him back to health, and herself back to self-respect, she starts to fall in love. The reader knows, as we are supposed to, that this is a bad idea. Steve is not quite the amnesiac he pretends, and has been a lot of other people in his time. And he has an enemy, who finds him wherever and whoever he is, and kills those around him; an enemy who, of course, might only exist inside his head. This first thriller is a virtuoso performance which juggles the woman-in-peril Gothic and the psychological thriller, and games with time and identity with considerable skill, if perhaps rather too much reliance on malignant coincidence. Dronfield has a classy touch with milieu as well--the farm is a real place, a home that turns scary, and the various previous lives of Steve, as French carpenter or antique car scout, all ring true even in the short takes which is all we get of them. - -Roz Kaveney
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A tense page-turner...dodging between serial-killer thriller, psychological suspense and full-on action drama (Val McDermid)
Baffling, terrifying and irresistible, THE LOCUST FARM will hold you in its sinister grip to the last page (Jill Paton Walsh)
''A sophisticated thriller in the tradition of Barbara Vine' Big Issue
'An intricate plot which wouldn't disgrace Iain Banks...the ending will take your breath away' The Mirror
'Jeremy Dronfield's debut is a tense page-turner that provides more than its fair share of surprises along the way' Manchester Evening News
'A refreshingly dense psychological thriller' Daily Mail
'A tense page-turner...dodging between serial-killer thriller, psychological suspense and full-on action drama' Val McDermid
'Baffling, terrifying and irresistible, THE LOCUST FARM will hold you in its sinister grip to the last page' Jill Paton Walsh
'A psychological suspense novel with a tour de force ending it would take thumb screw to make me reveal' Mark Timlin
'An atmospheric and moody thriller' Huddersfield Daily Examiner
'Atmospheric' The News (Portsmouth)
'Highly atmospheric...sophisticated and dark' Bracknell Midweek News
'An atmospheric and fast-paced thriller which will keep you guessing' Norfolk Journal
'A chilling tale - one that will leave you sleeping with the lights on' Bolton Evening News
Baffling, terrifying and irresistible, THE LOCUST FARM will hold you in its sinister grip to the last page (Jill Paton Walsh)
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- PublisherFeature
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 074725947X
- ISBN 13 9780747259473
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages407
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