Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce
'Harriet Tyce brings a new layer of visceral, addictive dark to domestic noir... At once shocking and riveting, I simply couldn't stop reading. Bravo' Sarah Pinborough AN ELECTRIFYING DEBUT THRILLER FOR FANS OF APPLE TREE YARD AND ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL - INTRODUCING A STUNNING NEW VOICE IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise - she's just been given her first murder case to defend. But all is never as it seems... Just one more night. Then I'll end it. Alison drinks too much. She's neglecting her family. And she's having an affair with a colleague whose taste for pushing boundaries may be more than she can handle. I did it. I killed him. I should be locked up. Alison's client doesn't deny that she stabbed her husband - she wants to plead guilty. And yet something about her story is deeply amiss. Saving this woman may be the first step to Alison saving herself. I'm watching you. I know what you're doing. But someone knows Alison's secrets. Someone who wants to make her pay for what she's done, and who won't stop until she's lost everything.... PRAISE FOR BLOOD ORANGE: 'A classy thriller with complex and compelling characters' Clare Mackintosh 'A dark and disturbing domestic noir' Louise Jensen 'Combines sharp spare prose with a gloriously twisted plot - I read this in one heart-pounding, furiously angry sitting' Emma Flint
Harriet Tyce brings a new layer of visceral, addictive dark to domestic noirObsession, revenge, lust and murder play out on the pages as a female barrister tries to hold her life together while her personality tries to tear it apart. At once shocking and riveting, I simply couldn't stop reading. Bravo -- Sarah Pinborough * Behind Her Eyes *
A classy thriller with complex and compelling characters -- Clare Mackintosh * I See You *
Gritty and compelling, Blood Orange drags you right into the hearts of the flawed characters and their stories from the get go. A book that will keep you up all night -- Kate Hamer * The Girl in the Red Coat *
A dark and disturbing domestic noir -- Louise Jensen * The Sister *
Blood Orange kept me frantically turning the pages, desperate to know what would happen next. A superb, compulsive read! -- Tess Gerritsen * I Know a Secret *
This brilliant debut from Harriet Tyce has it all - a tricky murder case, a complex and conflicted female barrister battling her own demons, and layer upon layer of intrigue as Blood Orange flows towards its breath-taking ending. -- Rachel Abbott * Only the Innocent *
Combines sharp spare prose with a gloriously twisted plot - I read this in one heart-pounding, furiously angry sitting -- Emma Flint * Little Deaths *
The debut novel of the year. Harriet Tyce is now on my 'must read' list -- Jeff Abbott * The Sam Capra Series *
It was all brilliantly done. Writing, plotting, characters - wonderful and deeply satisfying, devour-in-one-sitting stuff!' -- Lucy Mangan * Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading *
A classy thriller with complex and compelling characters -- Clare Mackintosh * I See You *
Gritty and compelling, Blood Orange drags you right into the hearts of the flawed characters and their stories from the get go. A book that will keep you up all night -- Kate Hamer * The Girl in the Red Coat *
A dark and disturbing domestic noir -- Louise Jensen * The Sister *
Blood Orange kept me frantically turning the pages, desperate to know what would happen next. A superb, compulsive read! -- Tess Gerritsen * I Know a Secret *
This brilliant debut from Harriet Tyce has it all - a tricky murder case, a complex and conflicted female barrister battling her own demons, and layer upon layer of intrigue as Blood Orange flows towards its breath-taking ending. -- Rachel Abbott * Only the Innocent *
Combines sharp spare prose with a gloriously twisted plot - I read this in one heart-pounding, furiously angry sitting -- Emma Flint * Little Deaths *
The debut novel of the year. Harriet Tyce is now on my 'must read' list -- Jeff Abbott * The Sam Capra Series *
It was all brilliantly done. Writing, plotting, characters - wonderful and deeply satisfying, devour-in-one-sitting stuff!' -- Lucy Mangan * Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading *
Harriet Tyce grew up in Edinburgh and studied English at Oxford University before doing a law conversion course at City University. She practised as a criminal barrister in London for nearly a decade, and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing - Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north London. Her first novel, Blood Orange, published in 2019 to huge critical acclaim and her latest novel, The Lies You Told, published in summer 2020.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781472252760 |
| ISBN 10 | 1472252764 |
| Title | Blood Orange |
| Author | Harriet Tyce |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Headline Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2019-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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