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'Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic' (Stephen King) - the New York Times bestseller

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

AvMegan Abbott

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A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR DAILY TELEGRAPH * DAILY MIRROR * DAILY EXPRESS * WALL STREET JOURNAL * BOSTON GLOBE * LIBRARY JOURNAL * CRIMEREADSAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe mesmerising new thriller, set in the hothouse world of a ballet school, from the bestselling and award-winning writer Megan Abbott.Dara and Marie were trained as ballet dancers by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents died in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters took over running the school together with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker - a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration - an interloper arrives and threatens their delicate balance.'Compulsively readable' RUTH WARE'A book you will not be able to forget' MARK BILLINGHAM'My thriller of the year' JAKE KERRIDGE, DAILY TELEGRAPH, BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A twisting, turning story of revenge and redemption' STYLIST'The feeling of menace grows stronger with every page' GUARDIAN'Slow-burning and feverish, with all the intensity of a classic American film noir' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Charged with foreboding, the novel throbs with gothic tension' IRISH TIMES'Dark and juicy and tinged with horror' NEW YORK TIMES'Dark and mesmerising' HARRIET TYCE'This is Megan Abbott working at the absolute height of her talent' ATTICA LOCKE'There's no one who captures the atmosphere of a tight-knit hothouse world, in all its feverish beauty and brutality, quite like Megan Abbott' TANA FRENCH

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-03
Mått152 x 232 x 30 mm
Vikt460 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor352
FörlagLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN9780349012483
UtmärkelserShort-listed for CrimeFest e-Dunnit Awards 2022 (UK)

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Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Die a Little, Bury Me Deep, The End of Everything, Dare Me, You Will Know Me and The Fever. Her most recent book is Give Me Your Hand.Her work has won or been nominated for the CWA Steel Dagger, the International Thriller Writers Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and five Edgar awards. Formerly a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show, The Deuce, she is now co-creator, executive producer and show-runner of Dare Me, based upon her novel, for the USA Network and, internationally, Netflix.Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, and The Believer. Her stories have appeared in multiple collections, including the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 and 2016.Born in the Detroit area, she graduated from the University of Michigan and received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University. She has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and the New School University. In 2013-14, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at Ole Miss.She is also the author of a nonfiction book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir, and the editor of A Hell of a Woman, an anthology of female crime fiction.