The Hidden Legacy

A life-changing gift with a shadowy origin - a dark and suspenseful debut novel

Zusatztext First word: Wow. Last word: WOOOOW. I can't quite praise this book enough. What an amazing debut by G J Minett...The novel is a definite page turner... The Hidden Legacy is not what I'd class the usual psychological thriller! but it is no doubt! undeniably one of the best of the genre from an incredible writer. It is well worth the read. Informationen zum Autor G.J. Minett studied at Cambridge and then spent many years as a teacher of foreign languages. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, and won the 2010 Chapter One Prize for unpublished novels with the opening chapter of The Hidden Legacy . You can follow him on Twitter @gjminett and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/grahamminettauthor. Klappentext 'The best kind of mystery novel, a cool and compelling story of secrets within secrets' Alison MacLeod, Booker-longlisted author of Unexploded A devastating crime John Michael Adams is just a small schoolboy, when a sudden shocking event tears his life - and his family - apart. A life-changing gift Years later, Ellen Sutherland is stunned when she inherits a beautiful cottage of life-changing value - from a woman she's never heard of. A long-buried secret As she begins to investigate, the mysteries around her new home only deepen. And it's not long before she realises she's not the only one asking questions about the cottage . . . 'Remarkable . . . I loved it.' Fleur Smithwick 'A thought provoking, subtle novel. Great stuff!' Jane Rusbridge Zusammenfassung . A powerful and suspenseful tale for fans of Val McDermid and Liane MoriartyPRAISE FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY'The Hidden Legacy is the best kind of mystery novel, a cool and compelling story of secrets within secrets, all delivered to the page with a powerful sense of human need and frailty.

Vorwort
A life-changing gift with a shadowy origin - a dark and suspenseful debut novel

Autorentext
G.J. Minett studied at Cambridge and then spent many years as a teacher of foreign languages. He studied for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Chichester, and won the 2010 Chapter One Prize for unpublished novels with the opening chapter of The Hidden Legacy. You can follow him on Twitter @gjminett and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/grahamminettauthor.

Klappentext

'The best kind of mystery novel, a cool and compelling story of secrets within secrets' Alison MacLeod, Booker-longlisted author of Unexploded

A devastating crime

John Michael Adams is just a small schoolboy, when a sudden shocking event tears his life - and his family - apart.

A life-changing gift

Years later, Ellen Sutherland is stunned when she inherits a beautiful cottage of life-changing value - from a woman she's never heard of.

A long-buried secret

As she begins to investigate, the mysteries around her new home only deepen. And it's not long before she realises she's not the only one asking questions about the cottage . . .

'Remarkable . . . I loved it.' Fleur Smithwick

'A thought provoking, subtle novel. Great stuff!' Jane Rusbridge

Zusammenfassung
. A powerful and suspenseful tale for fans of Val McDermid and Liane MoriartyPRAISE FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY'The Hidden Legacy is the best kind of mystery novel, a cool and compelling story of secrets within secrets, all delivered to the page with a powerful sense of human need and frailty.