After the Darkness After the Darkness

After the Darkness

    • 3.9 • 15 Ratings
    • $14.99
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

Thrilling, stylish and strikingly atmospheric, After the Darkness is an extraordinary psychological suspense that examines the very moral codes by which we live. In the fluid boundary between good and evil, where do we draw the line?
It's only by chance that Trudy and Bruce Harrison notice the isolated ocean view gallery on their way home from holiday . . .

It's not listed on any tourist pamphlet.  There are no other visitors.  Within the maze of rooms the couple begins to feel uneasy.  They are right to.  The next few hours will rip them from their safe, comfortable existence forever.

Bruce and Trudy escape from the gallery, bruised and brutalised.  But a man is dead.  Was someone else there that day?  Did the attack even happen the way they remember it?  Their doubts grow until they can no longer trust anyone, not even each other.  There is no return from the dark places their fear will push them.

'There's a sense of foreboding craftily interwoven with the darkness of sexual desire running from the first to the last sentence in this achingly powerful suspense thriller.' Australian Women's Weekly
'An excellent read.' Sun-Herald
Praise for Honey Brown's other books

'A thrilling read – one that captures the brutal essence of Australian small-town life, in which characters shift along a sliding moral scale.' Bookseller + Publisher

'A taut psychological thriller . . . the most filmic of stories.' Sun-Herald

'These characters are superbly drawn and Brown's manipulation of her stylish, erotic, unusual cinematic story firmly places this novel into the welcome league of the must-reads.' Courier-Mail

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2012
25 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Random House Australia
SELLER
Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd
SIZE
1.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Tully76 ,

Well worth buying

Wasn't the best book I have ever read but was the best one I've red in quite some time. I have not been able to put the book down. I will be buying the rest of honey's books

DukeofAnkh ,

Well-written, creepy read

After the Darkness is the story of married couple with three kids, Trudy and Bruce, told from Trudy's point of view. On the way home from a holiday away from the kids down the Great Ocean Road, the couple stop at a small art gallery on a whim. The art is creepy and Trudy has a bad feeling the entire time they're there. A feeling that's entirely vindicated when the owner-artist drugs and assaults them. They escape and the bulk of the narrative is about them dealing with the repercussions of what happened in the gallery.

I highly recommend After the Darkness to anyone after a creepy read. I read it quite quickly and found it difficult to put down. I think it will appeal broadly to readers of several genres, particularly those that enjoy their creepiness and psychological drama in a contemporary Australian setting.

Gaye-marie ,

After the darkness

I loved this book could not put it down highly recommend this and honeys other books RED QUEEN and THE GOOD DAUGHTER... i think there night be an error in the price it says 2.99 if thats the case its a bargain buy one for all of your friends they wont be dissapointed i can promise you!!!

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