The Surf House
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- $249.00
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- $249.00
Descripción editorial
*THE BRAND NEW DESTINATION THRILLER FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER*
'Escapist, thrilling, unforgettable’ GILLIAN McALLISTER
'The queen of the destination thriller is back with her best book yet' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'One of my books of the year’ ANDREA MARA
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Welcome to The Surf House
Where everyone’s escaping something…
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High on the cliffs of Morocco, far from the city lights and the souks, stands The Surf House: a sanctuary for travellers chasing sunshine and waves.
But the idyll hides a dark mystery.
And when Bea washes in, seeking refuge after a dangerous encounter in Marrakesh, she soon gets caught in the current.
A woman her age – who stayed in the same area, walked the same beaches, met the same guests – disappeared one year earlier, vanishing without trace.
Somewhere inside The Surf House lies the truth – but there’ll be a price for uncovering it…
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Readers love getting swept away with Lucy Clarke’s destination thrillers:
‘Had me on the edge of my seat’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Brilliant … kept me guessing the whole way through’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Twists & turns galore, couldn’t put it down. Highly recommend!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Very clever and I was gripped throughout. Will be reading more from Lucy Clarke for sure’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Very evocative and you get really involved with the beautiful setting and characters’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘What a stonkingly fabulous read’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lucy Clarke's book 'The Hike' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-10-02.
About the author
Lucy Clarke is a Sunday Times bestselling author whose novels have sold over a million copies worldwide. Her books have been selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club, and The Castaways was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month selection. When Lucy isn’t away on research trips (her favourite part of the job!), she can be found writing her destination thrillers from a beach hut on the south coast of England. She lives with her husband and their two children. Stay in touch with Lucy:
www.lucy-clarke.com
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Plot contrivances and purple prose mar Clarke's latest standalone (after The Hike). While on a photo shoot in Marrakesh, frustrated fashion model Bea quits her job and rushes out of her hotel. She soon gets lost in Marrakesh's mazelike alleyways, where two men rob and prepare to sexually assault her. At the last minute, she's saved by a knife-wielding woman named Marnie, who helps Bea kill her attacker. The women flee the scene, and Bea accepts Marnie's offer of refuge at her guesthouse on the Moroccan coast. Their respite is soon threatened by a blackmailer, who claims to have recovered the bloody knife from the murder scene and demands thousands of dollars the women don't have to keep the weapon out of the hands of the police. Then a man named Seth Hart arrives at Marnie's guesthouse, offering a reward for information about his sister, Savannah, who vanished from the area a year earlier. As Bea digs further into Savannah's disappearance, Clarke reveals a flurry of secrets each character is hiding, which exhaust more often than they shock. Overwrought language ("they lose themselves in each other, while the stars spin above") doesn't help. This misses the mark.