Patrick Redmond is an English author of psychological thrillers, with typical themes including insanity, secrets, and death. His works delve into the dark corners of the human psyche, exploring the boundaries between sanity and madness. Redmond masterfully builds suspense, gradually revealing hidden truths that often lead to tragic ends. His style is incisive and unsettling, drawing readers into a vortex of dangerous secrets and inevitable doom.
They were the perfect family. He was the perfect stranger. They should never have let him in . . . A brilliantly assured psychological thriller from the international bestselling author of The Wishing Game.
A captivating new psychological thriller from one of the fastest rising stars in British fiction.
Ronnie Sidney is perfect, his mother's little ray of sunshine. He can do no wrong, although sometimes he wants to, especially to people who look down on him and his mother, and their drab existence. And if bad things should happen to them - why, it's nothing to do with him. He's a good boy. Everybody says so.Susan Ramsey was once perfect too, cherished by her parents, a popular girl at school. A nice girl in a nice home. Then her dad died and her mum remarried. The way her stepfather cherished her wasn't very nice at all.So then they meet, Ronnie and Susan, become teenage sweethearts. If the world wasn't so wrong they'd be the perfect couple. But Ronnie can set that right. He's a good boy. Everybody says so.
A captivating psychological suspense novel by the bestselling author of THE WISHING GAME.
Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which escalate with increasingly unnatural and sinister results.