Stay
- 3 Jul 2025
- 9781837264469
- £10.99
- 320 pp
- 129×198mm
- 3 Jul 2025
- 9781837264476
- £7.99
- 320 pp
In a few words
The second thriller in the cult classic Aud Torvingen trilogy: a ferocious noir with an iconic feminist hero
In a few words
The second thriller in the cult classic Aud Torvingen trilogy: a ferocious noir with an iconic feminist hero
If Jack Reacher had a sister, she'd be Aud Torvingen . . . he would love her but he'd be a little scared of her, too
Lee Child
Without Aud Torvingen it’s difficult to see how there could have been a Lisbeth Salander
Val Mcdermid
If Jack Reacher had a sister, she'd be Aud Torvingen . . . he would love her but he'd be a little scared of her, too
Lee Child
Without Aud Torvingen it’s difficult to see how there could have been a Lisbeth Salander
Val Mcdermid
More about
the book
‘Stay in the world, Aud . . . Stay alive inside. Promise me.’
Raw with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to rebuild a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Her solitude is broken when an old friend asks for her help tracking down his missing fiancée, Tammy.
Aud feels obliged to help—and first in New York, and then Arkansas, she finds herself up against a sociopath so artful that the law can’t touch him, and her own demons.
More about
the book
‘Stay in the world, Aud… Stay alive inside. Promise me.’
Wracked with grief, Aud Torvingen has retreated from her life in Atlanta to a remote cabin in the middle of Appalachia. Months pass in solitude, until an old friend asks for her help tracking down his missing fiancé, Tammy.
Aud accepts – finding Tammy is easy. The hard part is repairing the damage caused by Tammy’s abusive lover Geordie Karp, damage that extends further than she ever imagined. And Aud has demons of her own to face first…
Visceral, unflinching, superbly executed, ultimately optimistic: Aud as in audacious
Francis Spufford
Razor sharp
The New York Times Book Review
The Aud Torvingen novels aren't just noir – they're a journey through the dark heart of noir and out the other side to somewhere hopeful. When the Aud books first came out, it was probably more surprising that the dark journey in question belonged to a queer woman: but even now that the world has begun to catch up with the imagination of Nicola Griffith, these novels are still astonishing. Visceral, unflinching, superbly executed, ultimately optimistic: Aud as in audacious
Francis Spufford
Nicola Griffith
View profileNicola Griffith is the Lambda, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of nine novels, including Hild and Spear. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and is known for both her work on identifying and tracing bias in the literary ecosystem and as a consultant on disability issues. She is a dual US/UK citizen and lives with her wife, fellow writer Kelley Eskridge in Seattle, in a house on the edge of a ravine.
Nicola Griffith
View profileNicola Griffith is the Lambda, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of nine novels, including Hild and Spear. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and is known for both her work on identifying and tracing bias in the literary ecosystem and as a consultant on disability issues. She is a dual US/UK citizen and lives with her wife, fellow writer Kelley Eskridge in Seattle, in a house on the edge of a ravine.
