A Woman Alone
A gripping and intense psychological thriller
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- £2.99
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- £2.99
Publisher Description
A family running from danger.
A house with the darkest of secrets.
The compulsive new thriller from the acclaimed Nina Laurin.
Cecelia, her husband and their three-year-old daughter have just moved into a new house: a fresh start after a horrific burglary the year before. This house comes with a complex security system that is supposed to make them all feel safe.
Except, strange things keep happening. The security system reveals that the house had a prior occupant: Lydia. Where is she now?
Cecelia is determined to discover the fate of this mysterious woman. But in doing so, she beings to realise the danger her family is in.
As twist after twist catches the reader off guard, Lydia's past and Cecilia's present become inexorably entwined in this tense, page-turning novel.
Reader reviews for Girl Last Seen
'Absolutely BRILLIANT'
'A dark,twisted and tense thriller that I devoured'
'This is the best thriller I've read this year. A real page turner'
'Twists and turns keep you on the edge of your seat'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Cecelia Holmes, the narrator of this chilling novel of psychological suspense from Laurin (The Starter Wife), her husband, and their three-year-old daughter have moved to Venture, Ill., a gated community built by IntelTech. Each SmartHome is fully connected and controlled by a computer system that offers exceptional security, which Cecelia and her husband welcome after a traumatic break-in at their old house. When Saya, the new house's computerized system, starts to malfunction, the problems are small at first: the wrong bathwater temperature, the wrong coffee order. After Saya calls Cecelia "Lydia," the name of the previous occupant, the mishaps become more disturbing and dangerous. At one point, one of IntelTech's pleasant, if creepily robotic, agents asks Cecelia, "Do you have a secret? One that will send your entire carefully built life tumbling down? Because you can be sure. The house knows about it. And soon, so will everyone else." Cecelia does indeed have a potentially damaging secret, but so do others, including Lydia. Readers will keep turning the pages as the secrets of Venture's residents come out, along with potential motives for murder. Laurin is an accomplished storyteller.
