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Title details for The Crooked House by Christobel Kent - Available

The Crooked House

by Christobel Kent
Rachel Atkins
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Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get; hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was Esme Grace, a teenager who lived in a dilapidated house on the edge of a bleak estuary. Then one night a terrible thing happened in the crooked house, a nightmare of violence from which only Alison emerged and from which she has been running ever since. Only when she meets Paul Bartlett does Alison realise that if she's to have any chance of happiness, she has to return to her old life and confront the darkness that has pursued her ever since and uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night.

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    May 1, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781785057571
      • File size: 319757 KB
      • Duration: 11:06:09

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 2, 2015
      In this haunting if flawed standalone from British author Kent (A Florentine Revenge), the former Esme Grace, now living in London under a new legal identity as Alison, is slowly building the semblance of a normal life. Somehow, she has managed to survive the slaughter of her family when she was 14 in the Essex village of Saltleigh—but now a promising romance forces her back to the village. Though awakening the traumatic memories she has struggled so long to repress is the last thing Alison wants, she fears that if she refuses to accompany her older lover, Paul Bartlett, to the wedding of Morgan Carter, his former flame, in Saltleigh, the relationship is doomed. Little does Alison realize that much graver dangers await, such as her discovery of evidence that casts a startling new light on her long-ago trauma. This psychological thriller falters down the homestretch under the weight of too many unbelievable plot twists, but until then this is a suspenseful ride with a gutsy heroine. Agent: Victoria Hobbs, A.M. Heath (U.K.).

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