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Blood like mine

Emma — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-order BLOOD LIKE OURS, the thrilling new Stuart Neville novel coming in Summer 2025.

THE BOOK EVERYONE IS DEVOURING . . .

‘Stuart Neville at his considerable best . . . This is a book you will not forget in a hurry and which will leave you hungry for the next instalment’ Mark Billingham
‘Thrilling, heartbreaking, and completely compelling. My heart was in my throat the whole time’ Alex North
‘Bravo Stuart Neville! Utterly brilliant’ Liz Nugent
‘Stuart Neville at his very, very best – this book grabs your heart and doesn’t let go’ Ruth Ware

What would you do if one night your whole life changed?
If everything you thought you knew was suddenly turned on its head?
If you had to take your child and keep moving.
Away from the questions, away from the prying eyes, away from everyone you knew.
Because it’s your job to make sure that your daughter can survive.
Even if it means becoming someone you never thought you’d be.
And you know that whatever you do, wherever you go, people will be looking for you both.
Because wherever you go, bodies are left behind.
But you have no choice.
Because you’d do anything to protect your child.
Even if she’s a monster . . .

Let the Right One In meets Stephen King in this chilling thriller about a mother’s love, a daughter’s devotion, a man’s obsession – and the darkness that lives within us all.

Blood like mine

Emma — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-order BLOOD LIKE OURS, the thrilling new Stuart Neville novel coming in Summer 2025.

THE BOOK EVERYONE IS DEVOURING . . .

Let the Right One In meets Stephen King in this chilling thriller about a mother’s love, a daughter’s devotion, a man’s obsession – and the darkness that lives within us all.

‘Blood Like Mine is one of those books that once you read the first few pages, you simply cannot put it back down’ Steve Cavanagh
‘What a book! Exciting, propulsive and vivid. A thriller with real bite’ Mark Edwards
‘Beautiful and dark as all hell . . . Original, terrifying and horrifically tense. This book is your next obsession (and Neville might well be Stephen King’s rightful heir)’ Will Dean
‘Wow, just WOW. I’ve waited a long time for a crime novel to do something different, to keep me guessing, to blow me away – this is that book’ C. L. Taylor
‘A nerve-jangling thriller that is also a hugely touching meditation on a mother’s love’ Christopher Brookmyre
‘Every year, I read one of two books that are truly special . . . Blood Like Mine deserves to sell skip-loads. No, JCB digger-loads. HBV lorry-loads!’ Fiona Cummins
‘At its core, Blood Like Mine is the story of a mother’s unconditional love for her daughter, and that gives everything that happens – the growing horror, the murders, the frantic desperation – an almost unbearable emotional punch. I’ve not read anything quite like this before, and once it sank its teeth in, I was utterly gripped’ Tim Lebbon

The House of Ashes

Emma — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

‘This might well be his masterpiece’ – MARK BILLINGHAM’One of Ireland’s finest crime writers’ – STEVE CAVANAGH’Chilling and compelling’ – VAL McDERMID’Terrifying’ – CHRIS BROOKMYRE’Thrilling’ – CHRIS WHITAKER’Stunning’ – MARK EDWARDS’Brilliant’ – ADRIAN McKINTY’Haunting’ – LIZ NUGENT’Superb’ – WILL DEAN____________________________For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning with her husband Damien.Then came the knock on the door.Elderly Mary Jackson can’t understand why Sara and her husband are living in her home. She remembers the fire, and the house burning down. But she also remembers the children. The children who need her, whom she must protect.’The children will find you,’ she tells Sara, because Mary knows she needs help too. Sara soon becomes obsessed with what happened in that house nearly sixty years ago – the tragic, bloody night her husband never intended for her to discover. And Mary – silent for six decades – is finally ready to tell her story . . .The House of Ashes is the stunning new 2022 thriller from the award-winning master of the genre, Stuart Neville – perfect for fans of John Connolly, Alex North and Brian McGilloway.

The House of Ashes

Emma — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

‘This might well be his masterpiece’ – MARK BILLINGHAM’One of Ireland’s finest crime writers’ – STEVE CAVANAGH’Chilling and compelling’ – VAL McDERMID’Terrifying’ – CHRIS BROOKMYRE’Thrilling’ – CHRIS WHITAKER’Stunning’ – MARK EDWARDS’Brilliant’ – ADRIAN McKINTY’Haunting’ – LIZ NUGENT’Superb’ – WILL DEAN____________________________For Sara Keane, it was supposed to be a second chance. A new country. A new house. A new beginning with her husband Damien. Then came the knock on the door.Elderly Mary Jackson can’t understand why Sara and her husband are living in her home. She remembers the fire, and the house burning down. But she also remembers the children. The children who need her, whom she must protect.’The children will find you,’ she tells Sara, because Mary knows she needs help too. Sara soon becomes obsessed with what happened in that house nearly sixty years ago – the tragic, bloody night her husband never intended for her to discover. And Mary – silent for six decades – is finally ready to tell her story . . .The House of Ashes is the stunning new 2022 thriller from the award-winning master of the genre, Stuart Neville – perfect for fans of John Connolly, Alex North and Brian McGilloway.

The Traveller and Other Stories

Emma — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

‘Stuart Neville writes crime fiction that is edgy, compelling and always deeply humane’ MARK BILLINGHAMBringing together thirteen gripping and unsettling tales from one of Northern Ireland’s bestselling crime authors, The Traveller & Other Stories is the perfect introduction to a modern master of thriller writing, featuring a Foreword by John ConnollyStuart Neville is a writer known for shining an unflinching light on his home country and its people. Ireland – north and south – in Neville’s hands, is a land haunted by ghosts, both real and imagined. This collection is divided into two parts: New Monsters and Old Friends. And many of the characters from Stuart’s novels, like Gerry Fegan from The Twelve, can be found haunting these pages. Childhood, innocence, guilt and redemption are all themes that are represented in Stuart’s novels and in this collection, as John Connolly puts in his Foreword, ‘here are monsters, both human and non-human. Here are hauntings, real or imagined. Here are old friends and older fiends.’Stuart’s pleasure in the short story is evidenced in these tales, culminating in the previously unpublished novella, ‘The Traveller’, which sees Jack Lennon (from The Final Silence) and his daughter Ellen McKenna, pitted against the unnamed assassin who is targeting them. This is a collection of stories covering a decade of the author’s writings and, as Connolly says, is ‘the work of a prodigiously talented writer’.This is Irish noir at its best.’Not to be missed’ Publishers Weekly, starred review’In the world of modern crime fiction, Stuart Neville is a supernova’ Dennis Lehane’Irish noir done to a turn, with just enough tearful sentiment to turn the screws tighter’ Kirkus review