`A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event ? magnificent ´ Mark Billingham

`Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell – this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form ´ Doug Johnstone

`[Lou] is irresistible and very funny ? The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing ´ Literary Review

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They`re the housemates from Hell?

When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O ´Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find ? working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.

Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer – all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou?

And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything – including her life.

Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman?

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`Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny ? an amazingly talented writer ´ Michael Wood

`A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity ´ B M Carroll

Praise for Helen FitzGerald

**Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**

`Sharp, shocking and savagely funny ´ Chris Whitaker

`Dark, dark, deliciously dark ´ Amanda Jennings

`Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling ´ Miranda Dickinson

`The main character is one of the most extraordinary you`ll meet between the pages of a book ´ Ian Rankin

`Sublime ´ Guardian

`A dark, comic masterpiece ´ Mark Edwards

`Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying ´ Erin Kelly

`Tantalisingly powerful ´ The Times

`The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist ´ Heat

`FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth ´ Daily Telegraph