Longlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2016.
March 2016 Book of the Month.
A powerful thriller with a knack for riding the tightrope between scaring the hell out of you and making you feel compassionate for its harried heroine, Heaberlin's crime debut is to be applauded. Sixteen year old Tessa survived a serial killer while her friend didn't and she woke next to a corpse in a shallow grave.
Her testimony put Terrell Goodwin on death row and his execution is now imminent, but who has been planting clumps of flowers by her house, indicating that perhaps she was wrong and the 32 hours she forgot are key to the answers. Did he or didn't he? With a fairy-tale-like atmosphere, the creepy thriller works insidiously on the senses and proves profoundly discombobulating as sympathies jump between characters and new possibilities pop into mind. Clever, ingeniously manipulative and elegant. ~ Maxim Jakubowski
This is a chilling new thriller that gets into the heart and mind of the killer, and the victim...Seventeen-year-old Tessa, dubbed a 'Black-Eyed Susan' by the media, became famous for being the only victim to survive the vicious attack of a serial killer. Her testimony helped to put a dangerous criminal behind bars - or so she thought. Now, decades later the black-eyed susans planted outside Tessa's bedroom window seem to be a message from a killer who should be safely in prison.
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This is a chilling new thriller that gets into the heart and mind of the killer, and the victim...Seventeen-year-old Tessa, dubbed a 'Black-Eyed Susan' by the media, became famous for being the only victim to survive the vicious attack of a serial killer. Her testimony helped to put a dangerous criminal behind bars - or so she thought.
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Black-Eyed Susans was written by Julia Heaberlin and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Black-Eyed Susans has 402 pages
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