ONE DEAD BODY. TWELVE SUSPECTS. TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR DARKNESS. ‚ Outstanding … Haughton writes vividly about a claustrophobic community … her novel really is a superlative locked-room mystery ‚ Sunday Times (Crime Book of the Month) ‚Haughton has created a fantastically atmospheric setting … it’s a chilling race to the finish to discover whodunnit‘ Observer In the most inhospitable environment – cut off from the rest of the world – there’s a killer on the loose. A&E doctor Kate North has been knocked out of her orbit by a personal tragedy. So when she’s offered the opportunity to be an emergency replacement at the UN research station in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance. The previous doctor, Jean-Luc, died in a tragic accident while out on the ice. The move seems an ideal solution for Kate: no one knows about her past; no one is checking up on her. But as total darkness descends for the winter, she begins to suspect that Jean-Luc’s death wasn’t accidental at all. And the more questions she asks, the more dangerous it becomes . . . ‚A sense of growing menace pervades … the freezing wasteland and claustrophobic workings of the research station are finely rendered‘ Financial Times ‚The kind of heart-pounding, sleep-stealing read that you want to recommend to everyone you meet. An absolutely thrilling book‘ CASS GREEN ‚ Chilling and atmospheric . . . had me turning the pages late into the night‘ MARK EDWARDS ‚Tense, thrilling and unpredictable , with one of the most unique and dangerous settings imaginable‘ ALLIE REYNOLDS ‚Set against the dangerous sub-zero temperatures end endless night of the Antarctic… Brilliantly atmospheric and terrifying ‚ CATHERINE COOPER ‚Tense, twisted and quite literally chilling – a locked room mystery in a unique setting where no one can be trusted‘ SUSI HOLLIDAY ‚Atmospheric, original and full of tension ‚ AMANDA JENNINGS ‚A real edge-of-the-seat plot. I loved it. Original and accomplished ‚ J.A. CORRIGAN
ISBN: 978-1-5293-5664-9
