{"product_id":"hours-before-dawn-book-celia-fremlin-9780486816203","title":"The Hours Before Dawn","description":"Edgar Award Winner for Best Novel \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of CrimeRead's 10 Best Reissued Mysteries of 2018 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this Edgar Award-winning thriller, a young housewife with two lively daughters and an endlessly crying baby battles domestic chaos as well as growing suspicions of the household's new lodger. Are Louise's fears the product of sleep deprivation, as her unsympathetic husband suggests, or is there really something sinister about the respectable-seeming schoolmistress? \u003cbr\u003e During the hours before dawn, Louise suspects, people with a precarious grip on sanity are likeliest to slip over the edge into madness -- especially if there's someone ready to give them a push. Without spilling a drop of blood, this psychological thriller transforms everyday events and settings into the extraordinary, evoking an atmosphere of sheer terror. Crime novelist Andrew Taylor hailed author Celia Fremlin as Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith . her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating -- and quite horribly chilling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Fremlin is a major mistress of insight and suspense. -- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Highly intelligent entertainment, beautifully written with wit and humor. -- Frances Fyfield \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It grips like grim death. -- \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A classic, lost in plain sight. \u003ci\u003eThe Hours Before Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that should have a permanent spot within the spate of modern domestic suspense and psychological thriller titles that it inspired. -- Criminal Element","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551685386513,"sku":"GOR010239603","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49778105581841,"sku":"CIN0486816206VG","price":10.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53230092222737,"sku":"GOR010051815","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0486816206.jpg?v=1751425217","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/hours-before-dawn-book-celia-fremlin-9780486816203","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}