Kind Of Cruel

Some secrets are so dark you keep them even from yourself . . . The brilliantly chilling seventh crime novel from the queen of psychological suspense. Amber Hewerdine knows more that she is telling.She knows that she hasn't slept since the arson attack which killed her best friend.She knows that it is not normal for four members of your family to disappear one Christmas morning, and then reappear the next day, refusing to explain or ever speak of it again.And she knows that somewhere, buried deep in her subconscious, is the key to what happened all those years ago at Little Orchard.Kind, cruel, kind of cruel.These are the words she keeps coming back to.But what do they mean?And why is she arrested within hours of first saying them, for the murder of a woman she has never met?'Hannah concocts a mystery of satisfying complexity in which frequent clichés of the genre are turned inside out ... Unfortunately for her rivals, Hannah does texture, depth and character with similar panache.' SCOTSMAN'Stunningly clever and compelling' HEAT The brilliantly chilling seventh crime thriller from the queen of psychological suspense - a must-read for fans of Clare Mackintosh and Paula Hawkins.'Utterly chilling' Observer'Truly hair-raising' Independent on Sunday Some secrets are so dark you keep them even from yourself . . .When Amber Hewerdine consults a hypnotherapist as a desperate last resort, she doesn't expect that anything much will change.She doesn't expect it to help with her chronic insomnia . . .She doesn't expect to hear herself, under hypnosis, saying words that mean nothing to her: 'Kind, cruel, kind of cruel' - words she has seen somewhere before, if only she could remember where . . .She doesn't expect to be arrested two hours later, as a result of having spoken those words out loud, in connection with the brutal murder of Katharine Allen, a woman she's never heard of . . .