An atmospheric page-turning thriller, from a bestselling Dutch author, that is cleverly written in the third person, present tense to get you really involved in the action. In an isolated house a mother and daughter are held captive by an escaped psychiatric prisoner - but why hasn't the woman who appeared briefly at the window brought help? Simmering with tension and lust for revenge, Safe as Houses is a terrifying story of every woman's worst fears.
';Two women experience near-death waking nightmares in this lean, edgy crime novel... a thriller that should not be read alone at night' (Publishers Weekly). Home should be the safest place to be. But when a man forces his way into Lisa's house, taking her and her young daughter hostage, there is nowhere to hide. Who is this brutal man? And what does he want from an innocent single mother? In hours of torment that turn into days, Lisa desperately tries to stay one step ahead of her captor's inscrutable mind. And as she does the unimaginable to protect her child, she wonders why the only witness to the attack has not raised the alarm... Meanwhile, that witness is lucky to be alive. Having accidentally seen the crime in progress, Senta sped away in search of helponly to awaken in a hospital bed having lost both her memory and her ability to communicate. In Safe as Houses, Simone van der Vlugt delivers ';a lean, stripped-down thriller that hits the ground running and sprints full-tilt to its breathless climax' (The Irish Times).';Van der Vlugt propels her double-pronged story along with a spare conciseness that has you flipping pages manically' Metro, UK
'The author builds a great atmosphere of tension as the truth slowly, horrifyingly, comes into focus' Sunday Telegraph on SHADOW SISTER
'Hard to put down. Thrilling' Cosmopolitan on THE REUNION
'A gripping psychological thriller which breathes new life into that old cliche 'unputdownable' Waterstone's Books Quarterly on THE REUNION
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About Simone van der Vlugt
Simone van der Vlugt is one of Holland's bestselling crime writers. She has written eight thrillers to date, including The Reunion and Shadow Sister. The prize-winning Safe as Houses is the first to be published by Canongate. Simone van der Vlugt lives with her husband and two children in Alkmaar in the Netherlands.
