Safe as Houses
Simone van der Vlugt
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Her instinct is to run for home. It’s the last thing she should do.
Home should be the safest place to be. But when a man forces his way into Lisa’s house, taking her and her young daughter hostage, there is nowhere to hide. Who is he? And what does he want from her?
In the coming hours and days, Lisa desperately tries to stay one step ahead, doing the unimaginable to protect her child - and wondering why the only witness to the attack has not raised the alarm …
“A fast-paced example of suburban noir, in which cosy domesticity is transformed by a potentially brutal home invasion… a lean, stripped-down thriller that hits the ground running and sprints full-tilt to its breathless climax”
irish Times
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“Van der Vlugt propels her double-pronged story along with a spare conciseness that has you flipping pages manically”
metro
“The author builds a great atmosphere of tension as the truth slowly, horrifyingly, comes into focus”
sunday Telegraph On Shadow Sister
“Hard to put down. Thrilling”
cosmopolitan On The Reunion
“A gripping psychological thriller which breathes new life into that old cliché ‘unputdownable’”
waterstone’s Books Quarterly On The Reunion
Simone van der Vlugt
Simone van der Vlugt is one of Holland’s bestselling crime writers. She has written eight thrillers to date, including The Reunion and Shadow Sister. The prize-winning Safe as Houses is the first to be published by Canongate. Simone van der Vlugt lives with her husband and two children in Alkmaar in the Netherlands