Abigail Dean

Kuvittele herääväsi yöllä - niin että huoneessa on vieras mies Nuoret ja rakastuneet Edward ja Isabel muuttavat Lontooseen, missä ystävät, työ ja hauskanpito täyttävät heidän elämänsä. Kuplan kuitenkin rikkoo mies, joka tunkeutuu eräänä iltana heidän kotiinsa. Sen yön hirveät tapahtumat vievät heidät erilleen. Kaksikymmentäviisi vuotta myöhemmin Golden State Killeriä muistuttava kiduttaja saadaan kiinni, ja Edward ja Isabel kohtaavat uudelleen tuomion julistamisen yhteydessä. Isabel on odottanut vuosia, että hänet melkein tappanut mies saisi tuomionsa, kun taas Edward on yrittänyt ajatella kaikkea muuta. Isabel ja Edward joutuvat kohtaamaan salaisuudet, kaipuun ja valheet, jotka repivät heidät kerran erilleen. Abigail Dean on brittiläinen kirjailija ja Googlen asianajaja. Deanin esikoisteos Tyttö A menestyi hyvin paitsi Suomessa, myös muualla maailmalla: se nousi lyhyessä ajassa kirjallisuusmaailman sensaatioksi ja sen oikeudet myytiin 29 kielialueelle. Kirjan on suomentanut Kristiina Drews. “Erinomainen jännityskirja on kirjoitettu huomaamattomalla nerokkuudella ja on täynnä teräviä havaintoja. Kun me kuolimme on maineensa veroinen.” - Kirjailija Stephen King "Rakastan sitä, kun kirja on hypen arvoinen. Tämä on suurenmoinen.” - Kirjailija Lisa Jewell “Poikkeuksellinen, koskettava, sydäntäsärkevä.” - Kirjailija Cecelia Ahern ”Kiehtova sekoitus rikosta ja romanssia” - Sunday Times

*A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper*'Taut, elegant and heartbreaking' Monica Ali'A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival' Claire Fuller'Wonderful... lives up to the hype' Stephen King'Impossibly accomplished' Chris Whitaker_________________________

From the bestselling author of GIRL A and DAY ONE comes stunning new novel from one of the most special writers of our generation_________________________

From the bestselling author of GIRL A and DAY ONE comes stunning new novel from one of the most special writers of our generation _________________________

"A page-turner par excellence, written with unobtrusive brilliance, and] full of sharply observed lines . . . The Death of Us lives up to the hype." --Stephen King "The Death of Us is astonishingly good--Abigail Dean's the real thing."--Mick Herron, bestselling author of Slow Horses "A devastating exploration of the long-term effects of violence . . . b]y focusing on the victims rather than on, say, the drama around the police investigation, this wrenching book subverts the normal conventions of a serial killer novel. It's an unusual and effective approach."--The New York Times Book Review It's the night we never talk about. It's the story the world wants to hear.But this isn't the story of that night. This is the story of us. Together, Edward and Isabel move to London. They are young and in love, occupied by friends, work and fun. But late on a spring evening when they are thirty years old, their home is invaded by a serial killer. In the wake of this violation, each tries to come to terms with a night that changed everything--and their marriage begins to crumble. Twenty-five years later, their tormentor is caught, and Edward and Isabel reunite for his sentencing. Isabel has waited years for the man who nearly ended her life to be brought to justice. Edward has tried to think about anything else. As they prepare to deliver impact statements in the public eye, it is time to revisit their love story. Will they finally be able to confront the secrets, longings and lies that tore them apart? Or will the horror of that night be the death of them? A captivating portrait of a marriage and its implosion, The Death of Us digs into the stories we tell ourselves about love--and everything love can bear.

"A gripping examination of a community devastated by a school shooting and the 'truthers' who deny it ever happened. Within that story is a girl who's hiding what she knows about what happened that day. A chilling, thought-provoking read. Brilliant." --Shari Lapena, New York Times-bestselling author of Everyone Here Is Lying and The Couple Next Door A village hall, a primary-school play, a beautiful Lake District town in England. Into this idyllic scene steps a lone gunman whose actions set off a chain of events that will have devastating consequences for the close-knit community of Stonesmere. In the weeks following the cataclysm, conspiracy theorists start questioning what happened. Two young people find themselves at the epicenter of the uproar: Marty, the town's golden girl and daughter of a teacher killed that day, and Trent, whose memories of his brief time trying to fit into Stonesmere fuel his attachment to the conspiracies. But what really happened at the Day One assembly? What secrets is Marty keeping and what blind spots does Trent miss? In this world where news travels fast and videos and gossip travel faster, how does a community move forward together? Opening with a gripping moment of terror and then jumping forward in time to show how secrets, trauma, miscommunications, and unrequited feelings reverberate over a lifetime, Abigail Dean once again delivers "a riveting page-turner, full of hope in the face of despair" (Sophie Hannah, The Guardian).

*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A*

*ORDER YOUR COPY OFTHE DEATH OF US, ABIGAIL DEAN'S STUNNING NEW NOVEL NOW!**The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A*A Times thriller of the year

*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A*

*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A*

En gripende fortelling om fellesskap, tragedie, konspirasjonsteorier og kjærlighetens varige virkning. En væpnet mann tar seg inn på skolen i en fredelig landsby i Nord-England. Kun timer senere blir Martys mor funnet død med armene utstrakt for å beskytte elevene sine. Etter tragedien forsøker det lille samfunnet å stable fellesskapet på beina igjen, men sprekker i samholdet avdekker mørke hemmeligheter og konspirasjonsteorier. Hvem er skyggen som forfølger Marty mens hun bearbeider sorgen? Og hva med dem som mener at skytingen aldri skjedde? Sammen med barndomsvennen Leah må Marty nøste i trådene og finne ut hva som egentlig skjedde den skjebnesvangre dagen - og stå ansikt til ansikt med sin egen rolle i dramaet.

«Jente A» er en gripende psykologisk thriller om flukt og overlevelse, og et mørkt familiedrama om svik og lojalitet. Lex Gracie vil ikke tenke på familien sin eller på «skrekkens hus», der hun og søsknene vokste opp. Hun vil heller ikke tenke på seg selv som «jente A», jenta som til slutt klarte å rømme fra foreldrene og befri sine søsken. Hva skjuler vi for hverandre, og kan vi stole på minnene våre? Som fremgangsrik advokat i New York har Lex greid å holde de smertefulle minnene litt på avstand, men da moren dør i fengselet, og søskenflokken arver barndomshjemmet det er knyttet så mye vondt til, blir hun innhentet av fortiden.

Gripande psykologisk thriller om flykt och överlevnad, ett mörkt familjedrama om svek och lojalitet. Lex Gracie vill inte tänka på sin familj, inte heller på föräldrarnas skräckhus där hon och hennes syskon tvingades växa upp. Och hon vill inte tänka på sin identitet som Flicka A – flickan som till slut rymde och befriade sina syskon. Som framgångsrik advokat i New York har det varit enkelt för Lex att undvika de smärtsamma minnena, men när modern dör i fängelset kommer hennes förflutna ikapp henne. Plötsligt måste hon förenas med syskonskaran och möta den barndom hon gjort allt för att glömma. Men vad döljer vi egentligen för varandra och kan minnen förråda oss? En litterär spänningsroman med högt tempo och ständigt aktuellt tema.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Pitch-perfect... Dean tells this story with such nuance and humanity, you're desperate to step into its pages." --The New York Times "Heart-stopping psychological drama... A modern-day classic." --Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author "A gripping story about family dynamics and the nature of human psychology." --Good Housekeeping She thought she had escaped her past. But there are some things you can't outrun. Lex Gracie doesn't want to think about her family. She doesn't want to think about growing up in her parents' House of Horrors. And she doesn't want to think about her identity as Girl A: the girl who escaped, the eldest sister who freed her older brother and four younger siblings. It's been easy enough to avoid her parents--her father never made it out of the House of Horrors he created, and her mother spent the rest of her life behind bars. But when her mother dies in prison and leaves Lex and her siblings the family home, she can't run from her past any longer. Together with her sister, Evie, Lex intends to turn the home into a force for good. But first she must come to terms with her siblings--and with the childhood they shared. What begins as a propulsive tale of escape and survival becomes a gripping psychological family story about the shifting alliances and betrayals of sibling relationships--about the secrets our siblings keep, from themselves and each other. Who have each of these siblings become? How do their memories defy or galvanize Lex's own? As Lex pins each sibling down to agree to her family's final act, she discovers how potent the spell of their shared family mythology is, and who among them remains in its thrall and who has truly broken free. For readers of Room and Sharp Objects, an absorbing and psychologically immersive novel about a young girl who escapes captivity-but not the secrets that shadow the rest of her life.

PUDISTE ESCAPAR UNA VEZ, PERO NO PODR S ESCAPAR SIEMPRE.\ UN XITO INTERNACIONAL: LA NUEVA REVELACI N DEL SUSPENSE PSICOL GICO. «Una obra maestra perfecta. Sunday Express Review «No me conoc is, aunque habr is visto mi cara. En los primeros retratos machacaron con p xeles nuestra imagen hasta la cintura; incluso nuestro pelo era demasiado caracter stico para mostrarlo. Sin embargo, cuando la noticia y sus guardianes perdieron inter s, result f cil localizarnos en los recovecos m s sombr os de internet. Alexandra, una exitosa abogada afincada en Nueva York, recibe la noticia de que su madre, muerta en la c rcel, la ha nombrado albacea de su testamento. Aunque nadie en su entorno lo sabe, la protagonista fue a os atr s la Chica Uno, la nica que logr escapar para pedir ayuda de la casa de los horrores donde sus padres ten an prisioneros a sus seis hijos. Ahora, Alexandra deber ponerse en contacto con sus hermanos, cada uno de los cuales ha crecido con una familia adoptiva diferente, incluido su extra o hermano Ethan, que ha convertido en un lucrativo negocio de conferencias la pesadilla que vivieron de ni os. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION YOU ESCAPED ONCE.BUT YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FOREVER. AN INTERNATIONAL SENSATION: THE NEW REVELATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE. "A perfect masterpiece." --Sunday Express Review" You don't know me, though you have probably seen my face. In our first photographs they muddled our image with pixels down to the waist. Even our hair was way too peculiar to show. However, when the news quieted down and its guardians lost interest, it became easy to find us in the darkest corners of the Internet." Alexandra, a successful lawyer based in New York, hears that her mother, who died in prison, named her executor of her will. Even though no one in her circle knows, the protagonist was Girl One years ago, the only one who managed to escape the house of horrors where her parents held their six children captive. Now, Alexandra must get in touch with her siblings, each of them adopted by a different family, including her weird brother Ethan, who turned their shared childhood nightmare into a lucrative conference business.

'Sensational. Gripping, haunting, and beautifully written' RICHARD OSMAN 'Haunting, powerful, with a pitch-perfect ending' THE NEW YORK TIMES