Spring 2017

FICTION | MAY | QUERCUS
Thriller (FH)
Hardback £14.99 9781786482044
Royal 544 pages
Trade Paperback £12.99 9781786482181
Ebook 9781784293239
Not For Sale: USA & CAN
THE NIGHT VISITOR
LUCY ATKINS
The stunning new domestic-noir thriller
from the author of The Missing One and
The Other Child.
London-based TV historian Olivia Sweetman has
everything – a successful career, three beautiful
children and a talented writer husband. In a small
Sussex museum she meets Vivian, the socially
awkward sixty-year-old housekeeper of nearby
Ileford Manor. When Vivian shows Olivia the
sensational Victorian diary she has found, Olivia
is desperate to write a book about it. But in order
to secure access, Olivia must put her misgivings
aside and hire Vivian as her research assistant.
Eighteen months later, with the book finished
and tipped as a bestseller, Olivia is relieved to
be shot of the difficult, if highly efficient, Vivian.
She takes a much-needed summer holiday with
family and friends in the South of France. But a
bizarre and unsettling event shatters the holiday,
throwing Olivia’s life headlong into crisis and soon
everything she has worked for is on the verge of
collapse. But why? There is only one person who
knows the truth that can ruin her. How far will
Olivia go to save her own skin?
The Missing One
Paperback £7.99
9781848663206
Ebook 9781848663213
The Other Child
Paperback £7.99
9781782069874
Ebook 9781782069881
Lucy Atkins is an award-winning feature
journalist and author, as well as a Sunday
Times book critic. She has written for the Guardian,
The Times, Psychologies, Red, Woman, Grazia and
many others. She lives in Oxford.
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