‘LOST GIRLS is a hugely impressive and utterly compelling thriller’ Independent
‘THE SHINING mixed with THE SIXTH SENSE…truly scary’ Maxim
‘LOST GIRLS is remarkable and compelling. But, more than that, it is a novel that goes some way towards reinventing the literary ghost story’ The Times
In a small lakeside town, a teacher is accused of murdering two teenaged girls. Lawyer Bartholomew Crane assumes it’s an open and shut case – after all, no girls’ bodies have ever been found and there is little evidence against the teacher. But the deeper he digs into the past, the more unnerved he becomes.
Strange visions haunt his imagination; telephones ring in the dead of night; the gargoyles above his hotel’s entrance seem to be watching him. And sometimes, out of the corner of his eye, he can see two identically dressed girls following wherever he goes…
‘THE SHINING mixed with THE SIXTH SENSE…truly scary’ Maxim
‘LOST GIRLS is remarkable and compelling. But, more than that, it is a novel that goes some way towards reinventing the literary ghost story’ The Times
In a small lakeside town, a teacher is accused of murdering two teenaged girls. Lawyer Bartholomew Crane assumes it’s an open and shut case – after all, no girls’ bodies have ever been found and there is little evidence against the teacher. But the deeper he digs into the past, the more unnerved he becomes.
Strange visions haunt his imagination; telephones ring in the dead of night; the gargoyles above his hotel’s entrance seem to be watching him. And sometimes, out of the corner of his eye, he can see two identically dressed girls following wherever he goes…
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LOST GIRLS is remarkable and compelling. But, more than that, it is a novel that goes some way towards reinventing the literary ghost story
A remarkably fine debut novel ... LOST GIRLS has an atmospheric menace that is all its own
LOST GIRLS is a hugely impressive and utterly compelling thriller
THE SHINING mixed with THE SIXTH SENSE...truly scary