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Hate Begins at Home Joan Aiken

Hate Begins at Home By Joan Aiken

Hate Begins at Home by Joan Aiken


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Summary

Trapped with family can be murder . . .

'Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others' New York Times Book Review

Hate Begins at Home Summary

Hate Begins at Home: Three suspicious deaths . . . A gripping, claustrophobic gothic thriller by Joan Aiken

'Waiting for her, he was on edge with expectation. He had never planned a murder before ... Only sheer necessity was making him do it now ...'

Coincidence couldn't explain the three accidental deaths. It had to be something more - something sinister? One old lady had fallen and broken her neck; the others had died in hit-and-run accidents. And now beautiful young Caroline Conroy, who has returned to her poisonous family after a mysterious tragedy abroad, must face the enemy: a smiling stranger who is calmly and ruthlessly planning her destruction.

'Terrifyingly enclosed spine-chiller' Sunday Telegraph

Hate Begins at Home Reviews

Terrifyingly enclosed spine-chiller * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *
Contemporary Gothic, executed with fine melodramatic conviction * FINANCIAL TIMES *
Three first rate thrillers in a row bring Joan Aiken very near the top of the tree. A superb essay in sheer terror * BIRMINGHAM EVENING MAIL *
Joan Aiken's triumph with this genre is that she does it so much better than others * NEW YORK TIMES *

About Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken, English-born daughter of American poet Conrad Aiken, began her writing career in the 1950s. Working for Argosy magazine as a copy editor but also as the anonymous author of articles and stories to fill up their pages, she was adept at inventing a wealth of characters and fantastic situations, and went on to produce hundreds of stories for Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Vanity Fair and many other magazines. Some of those early stories became novels, such as The Silence of Herondale, first published fifty years ago in 1964. Although her first agent famously told her to stick to short stories, saying she would never be able to sustain a full-length novel, Joan Aiken went on to win the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for The Whispering Mountain, and the Edgar Alan Poe award for her adult novel Night Fall. Her best known children's novel, The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, was acclaimed by Time magazine as 'a genuine small masterpiece'. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature, and although best known as a children's writer, Joan Aiken wrote many adult novels, both modern and historical, with her trademark wit and verve. Many have a similar gothic flavour to her children's writing, and were much admired by readers and critics alike. As she said 'The only difference I can see is that children's books have happier endings than those for adults.' You have been warned . . .

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NLS9781471916755
9781471916755
1471916758
Hate Begins at Home: Three suspicious deaths . . . A gripping, claustrophobic gothic thriller by Joan Aiken
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Paperback
The Murder Room
2014-12-14
240
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