Halfway House Av Helen Fitzgerald

<p><b>    <br> On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage … and that’s just the beginning… The twisty, shocking, darkly funny thriller by award-winning author Helen FitzGerald.<br><br> `A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event … magnificent´ Mark Billingham<br><br> `Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell – this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form´ Doug Johnstone<br><br> `[Lou] is irresistible and very funny … The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing´ Literary Review<br><br> _______<br><br> They`re the housemates from Hell…<br><br> When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O´Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.<br><br> Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer – all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou…<br><br> And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything – including her life.<br><br> Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman…<br><br> __________________________<br><br> `Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny … an amazingly talented writer´ Michael Wood<br><br> `A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity´ B M Carroll<br><br> Praise for Helen FitzGerald<br><br> **Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**<br><br> `Sharp, shocking and savagely funny´ Chris Whitaker<br><br> `Dark, dark, deliciously dark´ Amanda Jennings<br><br> `Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling´ Miranda Dickinson<br><br> `The main character is one of the most extraordinary you`ll meet between the pages of a book´ Ian Rankin<br><br> `Sublime´ Guardian<br><br> `A dark, comic masterpiece´ Mark Edwards<br><br> `Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying´ Erin Kelly<br><br> `Tantalisingly powerful´ The Times<br><br> `The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist´ Heat<br><br> `FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth´ Daily Telegraph<br><br> `Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this´ Sun</b></p>