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Book SynopsisOn her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage … and that's just the beginning… The twisty, shocking, darkly funny thriller by award-winning author Helen FitzGerald. '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’
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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 'Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this’
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