Kept in the Dark by Penny Hancock audiobook

Kept in the Dark

By Penny Hancock
Read by Rosalyn Landor

Blackstone Publishing 9780452298330

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 4 Formats: CD
  • 4 Formats: Library CD
  • 4 Formats: MP3 CD
  • 4 Formats: Playaway

  • ISBN: 9781470815158

  • ISBN: 9781470815141

  • ISBN: 9781470815165

  • ISBN: 9781470815189

Runtime: 10.32 Hours
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week, August 2012

When her neighbor’s fifteen-year-old nephew goes missing, Sonia is the last person that anyone would ever suspect. At forty-three, she is a strikingly attractive wife and mother. And like the River House, her lovely home overlooking the Thames, Sonia’s life is a picture of perfection and normalcy—until she meets Jez. From the moment he shows up on Sonia’s doorstep, the gorgeous teenage boy awakens a torrent of memories that she has worked a lifetime to forget. Drawn to Jez by a compulsion that she scarcely understands, Sonia takes him captive—prepared to sacrifice everything to keep him.

Evocative of thrillers by Chevy Stevens and Sophie Hannah, Kept in the Dark is a haunting debut novel about obsession, desire, and the potential darkness in us all.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“Deliciously dark and richly evocative…Brilliantly written and totally gripping.” —S. J. Watson, New York Times bestselling author
“Beautifully worked and with a sharp eye for the menace in the commonplace, it lingers in the memory like a Schubert melody, and casts a distinctive spell.” —Daily Mail (London)
“A sparklingly creepy debut thriller with the most brilliant premise.” —Daily Mirror (London), four-star review
“This creepy, well-written debut is reminiscent of John Fowles’ The Collector…With Sonia, Hancock pulls off the considerable feat of ‘writing mad.’” —Guardian (London)
“A clever, creepy thriller about misplaced affection and abduction…in clear, chilling prose.” —Marie Claire (UK)
“In British author Hancock’s stunning debut, a psychological thriller set over less than a week, a respectable married woman kidnaps a fifteen-year-old boy and holds him captive in her historic Thames-side London house…Descriptions of the putrid waters of the Thames add to the gothic atmosphere.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Invites comparison to John Fowles’ The Collector, but Hancock gives her narrator, Sonia, a more complex motive, crafting a narrative that grows darker as its level of tension builds. An accomplished first novel that lingers in memory.”  —Booklist
“A gripping account of a woman on the edge, who commits appalling crimes and offers them up in a tone of quietly rational domesticity.” —Natasha Cooper, author of the Trish Maguire Mysteries

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Author

Author Bio: Penny Hancock

Author Bio: Penny Hancock

Penny Hancock lives in Cambridge, England, with her husband and three children. She is a part-time primary-school teacher at a speech and language school and has traveled extensively as a language teacher. Kept in the Dark is her first novel.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD, Playaway
Category: Fiction/Mystery & Detective
Runtime: 10.32
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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