Kelly creates an atmosphere as claustrophobic as a summer commute, which permeates the narrative and keeps the reader hooked. Compelling and lyrically stylish, THE POISON TREE is a true winner! * Jeffery Deaver * A brilliant new voice in crime fiction. * Sophie Hannah * Brilliant! THE POISON TREE grabs you with the first sentence and doesn't let go-even after the last page this is the sort of thriller that stays with you for a long, long time. an author who instinctively knows how to tell a suspense story (think early Barbara Vine) * Daily Mail * The writing is elegant, atmospheric and sophisticated. dark, poetic, gripping, totally brilliant. * Stephen King * A beautifully crafted, evocative psychological thriller. This one gets the writer's ultimate bit of praise: I wish I had written it. Alternating between the fragile present and the lingering past with a shocker of an ending, The Poison Tree is a brilliant suspense debut that will appeal to readers of Kate Atkinson, Donna Tartt, and Tana French.A terrific suspense debut, reminiscent of another British woman's auspicious bow: Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. She will do whatever it takes to protect her family and keep her secret. When old ghosts come back to destroy the life it has taken Karen a decade to build, she has everything to lose. But Biba and Rex have a complicated family history-one of abandonment, suicide, and crippling guilt-and Karen's summer of freedom is about to end in blood.
Naïvely, Karen assumes her newfound happiness will last forever. She begins a relationship with Biba's enigmatic and protective older brother, Rex, and falls into a blissful rhythm of sex, alcohol, and endless summer nights. Flash back to the sultry summer in 1990s London when Karen, a straight-A student on the verge of college graduation, first meets the exotic, flamboyant Biba and joins her louche life in a crumbling mansion in Highgate. This taut psychological thriller begins when Karen and her nine-year- old daughter, Alice, pick up Rex from a ten-year stint in prison for murder.
From an incredible new voice in psychological suspense, a novel about the secrets that remain after a final bohemian summer of excess turns deadly.
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