A Slow Fire Burning inside for so long has led someone to murder in Paula Hawkins’ latest thriller.
Is the killer Laura, a physically and emotionally damaged
young woman who was thought to be the last one with the victim and had his
blood on her T-shirt?
Perhaps it was the strange, hobbit-like Miriam. She said
she found him that way, but did she leave him that way before she found him?
Then there’s Carla, the victim’s grieving
aunt who lost her own son 15 years ago, whose former husband Theo has been led
to believe that his wife and her nephew were having an affair. Could a jealous,
grief-stricken ex who writes crime novels for a living have slit the throat of
the young man?
An unpublished memoir by Miriam about being
kidnapped as a teenager along with her best friend who was murdered and a
seemingly plagiarized novel from that memoir by Theo adds an interesting thread
that is woven throughout this clever novel.
Paula Hawkins, author of the best-selling The Girl on the
Train, was a journalist for 15 years before turning to fiction writing. Born in
Zimbabwe, she splits her time between London and Edinburgh.
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