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Lasting Damage

a completely gripping and unputdownable crime thriller packed with twists to keep you on the edge of your seat

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 It's 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago.

Soon Connie is clicking on the 'Virtual Tour' button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room . . .

(P)2011 Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks©2011 Sophie Hannah Crime Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

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An assured psychological thriller of murderous domestic deceit.
A beautifully written and entirely gripping take from beginning to end.
As addictively creepy as her previous thrillers
Sophie Hannah scores on all counts . . . Confidence oozes from every taut chapter . . . Hannah's relish of every delicious twist and tweak is one of the very few things that are clear in this cryptic game of hide and seek.
Jaw-droppingly assured. Simon Waterhouse...is destined to be up there with the Poirots, the Marples and the Sherlock Holmeses of detective fiction if Hannah keeps up this standard of writing. This reader was left speechless with admiration.
Hannah's latest psychological thriller combines quirky police procedural with shrewdly observed domestic deceit. Told with confidence and panache, Hannah challenges the reader to work out who the paranoiac of the piece really is.
Sophie Hannah's excellent psychological thrillers derive much of their appeal from her knack for coming up with the sort of opening situation that instantly puts the reader in the literary equivalent of an armlock . . . Hannah is very good indeed at giving a modern twist to the familiar woman-in-peril theme.
Praise for Sophie Hannah
Hannah takes domestic scenarios, adds disquieting touches and turns up the suspense until you're checking under the bed for murders
It's a given that nothing will be as it seems in the latest psychological thriller from Sophie Hannah, who marries complex plots with crisp, conversational prose
As Hannah sees it things are rarely clear cut and it is this moral ambivalence that makes her fiction so provocative
Full of twists and turns, and terrifying, too.
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Great start & good plot..but really lost its way & ended up not knowing what was going on, poorly explained & finished unsatisfied

Good start but just lost it at the end

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Great story with challenging twists (I thoghtcit was going to be a ghost story!). The detectives were far more realistic than in some stories I have listened to lately

A jolly good story,well told.

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Great story with excellent narration. Just sorry it came to an end. One of the best books I have listened to this year.

Great Book.

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not to my taste and I struggled. hlUnfortunately couldn'tfinish it as I was totally uninspired!

not my taste

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love the story as good as Sophie hannah books always are. the narration is fine apart from one thing. the female narrator changes her volume so much, multiple times a sentence which meant if you had the volume high enough to hear the whispering you get deafened half a second later when she starts yelling only for it to go back to a hardly audible whisper a second later.

couldn't hear half of it.

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