Fault Lines
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $9.99
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Publisher Description
When volcanologist Surtsey finds her married lover dead, she pockets his phone and makes the fatal decision to keep her discovery secret ... but someone has been watching...
'A cracking and highly original thriller' Mark Billingham
'You don't read Fault Lines so much as you white-knuckle your way through its twists and turns' Megan Abbott
'A superb, highly original psychological chiller' Steve Cavanagh
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In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, where a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery.
On a clandestine trip to new volcanic island The Inch, to meet Tom, her lover and her boss, she finds his lifeless body, and makes the fatal decision to keep their affair, and her discovery, a secret.
Desperate to know how he died, but also terrified she'll be exposed, Surtsey's life quickly spirals into a nightmare when someone makes contact – someone who claims to know what she's done...
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'An explosive thriller' Daily Record
'A cracking-good thriller with some seriously good writing and some beautifully designed characters ... Here's a writer pushing the thriller envelope, giving the reader not just a good novel, but also a unique one' David Pitt, Booklist
'Novel and elegant ... it is the book's thought-provoking and heart-breaking moments that carry the reader through the story and which resonate most at the end' Scotsman
'Both a meditation on the volatility of human nature and a gripping thriller with plenty of twists and turns ... An original and addictive thriller, as intelligent as it is shocking' Foreword Reviews
'Richly characterised, beautifully crafted, this is a book that you truly inhabit' Emma Kavanagh
'Scotland's truest exponent of noir' Chris Brookmyre
'A subtly off-kilter speculative thriller that builds to a truly explosive ending' Eva Dolan
'A pacey, gripping read' Louise Voss
'Sexy, fearless and addictive' Helen FitzGerald
'Johnstone weaves his compelling and original tale with great skill and elegance from the gripping beginning to a tense and explosive ending' Amanda Jennings
'Brilliantly unputdownable' Martyn Waites
'Superb' Luca Veste
'Blending powerful imagination and plotting, this is the work of a writer at the top of his game' Stuart Neville
'Plays with every single emotion' Susi Holliday
'This had me hooked from the first page' Cass Green
'Poignant, gripping and packed with seismic shocks' Paddy Magrane
'Incisive, intelligent and imaginative' Michael J. Malone
'I was completely swept away' Caroline Mitchell
'Hits you lie a seismic shock' Douglas Skelton
'Grabs you by the throat in the first chapter' Neil Broadfoot
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this overwrought whodunit from British author Johnstone (Crash Land), volcanologist Surtsey Mackenzie, a member of a team studying the Inch, an island that recently formed in the Firth of Forth off Edinburgh, makes a series of bad choices, beginning with sleeping with her married boss, Tom Lawrie. One day, she arrives on the Inch for a rendezvous with Tom, only to find seabirds feeding on his corpse. Anxious to keep her affair a secret, Surtsey retrieves the cellphone Tom used exclusively for contacting her, and flees the Inch without reporting his death, which is discovered the next day when her research group visits the island. The police treat the death as a possible homicide, and Surtsey is freaked out when someone sends ominous texts to her on Tom's phone. Johnstone tosses in more melodrama Surtsey's mother is in hospice, nearing the end of her battle with cancer before providing an unsurprising reveal and an implausible denouement. The unusual island setting is about this book's only virtue.)
