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The Crooked House

By: Christobel Kent
Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
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One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison's story.

Perfect for fans of The Girl on the Train and Apple Tree Yard, this stunning psychological thriller follows one woman's search for the truth about her family history. Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: With no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was someone else: Once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else's - or so she thought.

Then one night violence was unleashed in the crooked house, in a nightmare that only Alison survived and from which she's been running ever since. Only when she falls for the charismatic Paul does Alison realise that to have any chance of happiness, she must return to her old life and face a closed community full of dark secrets.

As she seeks to uncover the truth of what happened that terrible night, Alison begins to question everything she thought she knew. Is there anyone she can trust?

©2015 Christobel Kent (P)2015 Hachette Audio Crime Thrillers Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Happiness

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Critic reviews

"An utterly compulsive psychological thriller. I loved it." (SJ Watson, author of Before I Go to Sleep, on The Crooked House)
"Brilliant...A spooky, gripping and affecting story." (Louise Doughty, author of Apple Tree Yard, in the Guardian)
"Compulsive, unsettling and scary as hell." ( Sunday Mirror)
"Echoes of Christie and du Maurier in this fine thriller." ( Sunday Times)
"Demands to be devoured in one sitting." ( Good Housekeeping)
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Not as gripping as I would have liked. Good twist but took very long to get there

Not as gripping as I expected

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Fabulous story. Great characters, kept me guessing the whole way through - so credible. Loved every bit of this book! I'm now going to my next Christobel Kent book!

Best book Iv listened to this year

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Not a smooth story for audio. Very jumpy in parts when Main character is remembering vs experiencing. Lot of reaches in story plots and complete hatred of police. Intriguing, but when you look back on what took place hard to accept so many things had to happen for this story to 'work'.

Meh.

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I did enjoy this book in parts and stuck it out to the very end but to be honest it was a long and arduous journey and many times I didn't think I'd make it.

There are lots of characters in this book who play various parts in our heroines life. However, they are not well drawn and tend to meld into one another. The ending was not really a surprise and actually I'd lost interest by that point. Sorry!

Overlong and confusing

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Really well read, but the story could have been told in an hour. Very dull and predictable and generally rubbish.

Not good

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