The stunning new literary thriller from the bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial
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Catriona Ward crafts suspenseful and atmospheric narratives that delve into the darker aspects of the human psyche and the complexities of relationships. Her style is marked by evocative prose and a mastery of building tension and unease. Ward explores themes of identity, memory, and the unspoken truths that shape our lives. Her works draw readers into the depths of the human condition, leaving a lasting impact.







- 2023
- 2022
'DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK' - STEPHEN KING'Creepy, individual and gripping' - IAN RANKIN'A thrilling hall of mirrors filled with twists' - ALEX MICHAELIDES'Brilliant and moving' - SARAH PINBOROUGH
- 2021
Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It's so good you'll read it twice...
- 2018
New Year's Day, 1921. Seven mutilated bodies are discovered in an ancient stone circle on a remote Scottish island. The victims are 'the Children' - members of a nature cult ruled by the charismatic, sadistic patriarch, the adder. The sole survivor of the massacre, Dinah, claims that Eve is the murderer, apparently drowned while attempting her escape. Yet as Eve's story of the years leading up the massacre intertwines with Dinah's account of the aftermath, a darker, stranger truth begins to emerge
- 2016
She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all. For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love. It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake. With a ghostly face at the window, inexplicable events and a sense of menace hanging over every page, this is one chilling gothic novel.