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POSSESSION de Katie Lowe

A psychological thriller novel about a woman whose husband was murdered ten years ago, and the true crime podcast that digs up all the secrets from her past she’d tried to keep buried…

POSSESSION
by Katie Lowe
St. Martin’s Press, July 2021
(chez Mushens Entertainment – voir catalogue)

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Hannah is a psychiatrist, living in the village of Hawkwood with her teenage daughter Evie, and her journalist boyfriend Dan. Ten years earlier, Hannah’s husband was stabbed to death in their marital bed, and a local teenager with prior convictions was found guilty of the crime, and sentenced to life in prison. But a popular true crime podcast turns its attentions to her husband’s case – highlighting numerous flaws in the investigation and prosecution of the boy charged with the crime. With increasing attention on Hannah, and her past, she takes a new job opportunity at what used to be Hawkwood House asylum – a place she has always been drawn to as her grandmother was kept there. The site of tragedy, and allegedly haunted, she’s determined to build it into a force for good. But with the podcast continuing to unpick her relationship with her late husband, mysterious threats arriving on her doorstep, and the police reopening the old case, her world starts to unravel. Hawkwood House is full of ghosts: but the ghosts we carry with us of our past decisions can prove be the most haunting of all.

Katie Lowe is a writer living in Worcester, UK, whose debut novel The Furies is published by HarperFiction (UK), St Martin’s Press (US) and eight other territories worldwide. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, Katie has a BA (Hons) in English and an MPhil in Literature & Modernity. She returned to Birmingham in 2019 to complete a PhD in English Literature, with her thesis on female rage in literary modernism and the #MeToo era.

 

WILL HE WONT HE d’Ali Land

Shutter Island meets The Silence of the Lambs in the new psychological thriller from international bestseller Ali Land, author of Good Me Bad Me.

WILL HE WONT HE
by Ali Land
Michael Joseph/Penguin UK, April 2022

Dr Luke Braithwaite is a forensic psychologist who works in a West London hospital that houses patients who have committed violent acts. Dr Braithwaite is tasked with approving the upcoming release of a highprofile inmate – 25-year-old Cyril Thorpe who, when he was a teenager, famously murdered eleven cats followed by his mother, leaving a little sister alone who continues to visit him at the hospital eight years later. Luke is drawn to Cyril and isn’t quite convinced that his version of events adds up. Alongside this, the police come to Luke with details of a local murder that bears resemblance to something in his own past. As the personal and professional pressure on him mounts, Luke starts to doubt everything he once thought he knew. And as the murders escalate, he starts to wonder if the killings truly are at random… or if they are somehow connected to him.

Ali Land graduated from university with a degree in Mental Health and worked as a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Nurse. Books from her teenage years—in particular The Wasp Factory and Lord of the Flies—helped inspire her first novel, Good Me, Bad Me, which was a Sunday Times Bestseller, a Richard and Judy Book Club pick, a Target Book Club read in the US, and has sold over 100,000 copies in the UK.

TO FILL A YELLOW HOUSE de Sussie Anie

Dealing with themes around identity and belonging, and with the political backdrop of the collapse of the British high street and the rise of populist politics, this is a novel at once beautifully evocative and deeply thought-provoking, by a hugely talented new voice.

TO FILL A YELLOW HOUSE
by Sussie Anie
Orion UK, 2021/2022
(chez Mushens Entertainment – voir catalogue)

The high street is dying, and with it, Rupert’s shop ‘the Chest of Small Wonders’, which he has run for decades. Most people won’t miss it. But for teenager Kwasi, the Chest is a refuge he can’t live without, where he finds respite from school bullies and his inescapable aunties (who may or may not have overstayed their visas) at home. Rupert is a man whose home feels too empty: he has lost his way since the death of his wife, trying to remain in the happiness they shared by retreating into a world of drugs. An unlikely friendship develops between Rupert and Kwasi, a relationship which changes over time as well as changes them. But as politics engulfs the shop, both face difficult choices that will force them to confront their prejudices.

Sussie Anie lives in London, where she was born and grew up. After graduating with a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Warwick, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she was a recipient of the 2018-19 Kowitz Scholarship. Her writing has been published in Lolwe, and shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize 2020.