Halfway House : The nerve-shatteringly tense, searingly funny new thriller from the author of Netflix hit, THE CRY

On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage . and that's just the beginning. The twisty, shocking, darkly funny thriller by award-winning author Helen FitzGerald. � 'A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is�always a major event . magnificent'�Mark Billingham � `Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell - this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form' Doug Johnstone � `[Lou] is irresistible and very funny . The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing' Literary Review � _______ �They're the housemates from Hell. When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O'Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find . working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders. Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer - all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou. And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything - including her life. Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense,�Halfway House�is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman. � __________________________ �`Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny . an amazingly talented writer' Michael Wood � `A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity' B M Carroll �Praise for Helen FitzGerald � **Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year** � 'Sharp, shocking and savagely funny' Chris Whitaker � `Dark, dark, deliciously dark'�Amanda Jennings � 'Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling'�Miranda Dickinson � 'The main character is one of the most extraordinary you'll meet between the pages of a book'�Ian Rankin 'Sublime'�Guardian 'A dark, comic masterpiece'�Mark Edwards 'Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying' Erin Kelly 'Tantalisingly powerful'�The Times 'The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist'�Heat 'FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth'�Daily Telegraph 'Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this' Sun