Stone Bruises

Somebody!' I half-sob and then, more quietly, 'Please.' The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I'm not going anywhere...Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the parched fields and country lanes but his leg is caught in a vicious animal trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women - daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn, blighted vineyard and the brooding lake. And it's then that Sean's problems really start... This nail-shredder of a thriller - like the fiction of Nicci French or Gillian Flynn - holds you from the beginning, tightening its grip as the story unfurls and shocks you with its final twist.

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Product details

• Authors: Simon Beckett, Beckett Simon
• Publisher: Bantam UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9780857502582
• ISBN: 978-0-85750-258-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Thrillers / General, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery fiction