Halfway House

by Helen FitzGerald

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Pub Date Feb 27 2024 | Archive Date Jan 02 2024

Mystery & Thrillers

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Description

Meet the roommates from hell

On her first shift at a halfway house for violent offenders in Edinburgh – the only job she could get – rebounding Australian expat Lou is taken hostage. For nine long hours, the only people who can help her are the residents. But who can Lou trust? The mum-and-dad-killer, the elderly legless rockstar paedophile, the stammering suicide chat room guy, or the Armani-suited conman?

Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder: never corner a desperate woman.

Meet the roommates from hell

On her first shift at a halfway house for violent offenders in Edinburgh – the only job she could get – rebounding Australian expat Lou is taken hostage. For nine long...

A Note From the Publisher

Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of thirteen adult and young-adult thrillers, including Ash Mountain (2021) and The Cry (2013), which was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and is now a major BBC/ABC drama. Helen worked in a Halfway House in Edinburgh herself and as a criminal justice social worker for over fifteen years. She grew up in Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. She now lives in Glasgow with her husband.

Helen FitzGerald is the bestselling author of thirteen adult and young-adult thrillers, including Ash Mountain (2021) and The Cry (2013), which was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier...

Advance Praise

'A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity.' – Ber Carroll

Marketing Plan

Helen has a strong and ever-growing fan base in Australia (especially following the huge success of TV series The Cry on ABC)
Follows on from the success of Ash Mountain, the first of Helen's novels published in Australia by Affirm Press and also being made into a TV series
Like all Helen's novels, this one is as hilarious as it is dark and shocking, with a particularly Australian brand of black humour
Helen is a media darling and will get plenty of coverage, especially throughout ABC (her primary book-buying audience)

Helen has a strong and ever-growing fan base in Australia (especially following the huge success of TV series The Cry on ABC)
Follows on from the success of Ash Mountain, the first of Helen's novels...