Catriona Ward Knihy

Ústřední postavou románu Catriony Ward je vrah. Není to však ledajaký vrah. Je to vrah, jehož identita uniká nejen nám čtenářům, ale i jemu samému. Příběh vypráví o pohřešovaném dítěti. A o pomstě. Je to příběh Teda, který žije s dcerou Lauren a s kočkou Olivií v obyčejném domě na konci obyčejné ulice. Všechno v tomto příběhu je pravdivé. Jenže něco z toho jsou ve skutečnosti lži. Připadá vám, že dobře víte, co se děje v posledním domě na Needless Street. Připadá vám, že podobný příběh jste už přece četli. V temném lese na konci Needless Street je cosi pohřbené. Jenže to není to, co si myslíte…

'DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK' - STEPHEN KING'Creepy, individual and gripping' - IAN RANKIN'A thrilling hall of mirrors filled with twists' - ALEX MICHAELIDES'Brilliant and moving' - SARAH PINBOROUGH

New Year's Day, 1921. Seven mutilated bodies are discovered in an ancient stone circle on a remote Scottish island. The victims are 'the Children' - members of a nature cult ruled by the charismatic, sadistic patriarch, the adder. The sole survivor of the massacre, Dinah, claims that Eve is the murderer, apparently drowned while attempting her escape. Yet as Eve's story of the years leading up the massacre intertwines with Dinah's account of the aftermath, a darker, stranger truth begins to emerge

The stunning new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial

She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love. It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake. With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel.