Until it's Over
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- ¥1,000
Publisher Description
Until It's Over is a riveting psychological thriller from the Top Ten bestselling author, Nicci French
DEAD. UNLUCKY.
Cycle courier Astrid Bell is bad luck - for other people. First Astrid's neighbour Peggy accidentally knocks her off her bike - and not long after is found bludgeoned to death in an alley. Then a few days later, Astrid is asked to pick up a package - only to find the client slashed to pieces in the hall of her own home.
For the police it's more than coincidence. For Astrid and her six housemates it's just the beginning of a nightmare - the growing suspicion that the worst is yet to come.
Because if it's true that bad luck comes in threes - who will be next to die?
Praise for Nicci French:
'Reads like lightning' Observer
'Another nail-biting thriller' Daily Express
'A taut, sexy and compulsive read' Elle
'Taut and menacing . . . excellent' Guardian
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Narrated by buff, beautiful Astrid Bell, the first part of this engaging thriller from husband-wife writing team Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (Losing You) sets up the puzzle pieces, red herrings and all. Astrid shares a large decrepit London house with six roommates, who include a nondescript drifter, a lackadaisical drug dealer and a promiscuous lawyer. Hours after Astrid, a bike messenger, collides with a neighbor's car door on her way home, the neighbor is found dead in the first of what develops into a series of deaths to which Astrid is somehow linked. The second part snaps the picture together in a villain's how-I-did-it play-by-play. Despite this big half-time reveal, the suspense never falters perhaps due to the wise decision to leave the bad guy unsympathetic at every turn. Justice-hungry readers will enjoy watching the net constrict around the criminal. The unusual two-part construction injects freshness into an otherwise ordinary plot.
