Hanging Hill

Description

The Victim: A teenage girl has been brutally murdered on her way home from school. The cryptic message 'all like her' is crudely written on her body. The Silence: The dead girl's friends are deeply shocked and upset, but they all refuse to reveal anything about her last movements. Who are they protecting? And what more do they know? The Fear: Headstrong Detective Inspector Zoe Benedict knows exactly how she wants to work this case. But Zoe's own dark past, if exposed, may jeopardize the search for justice ...and destroy her too. Tense, thrilling and brilliantly original, "Hanging Hill" reveals the evil side of human nature and the terrible things normal people can do...

Promotion info

Even good people do bad things ... in the new standalone bestseller by the UK's most spine-tingling thriller writer, longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year

Author description

Mo Hayder's first novel, Birdman, was hailed as 'a first-class shocker' by the Guardian, and her follow-up, The Treatment, was voted by The Times one of the top ten most scary thrillers ever written. Hanging Hill has been shortlisted for the 2011 CWA Gold Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year. Mo's books are 100% authentic, drawing on her long research with several UK police forces and on her personal encounters with criminals and prostitutes. She lives in England's West Country.