Auld Acquaintance: The Gripping Scottish Murder Mystery Set to Thrill

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot

And never brought to mind

Millie Partridge desperately needs a party. So, when her (handsome and charming) ex-colleague Nick invites her to a Hebridean Island for New Year's Eve, she books her ticket North.

But things go wrong the moment the ferry drops her off. The stately home is more down at heel than Downton Abbey. Nick hasn't arrived yet. And the other revellers Politely, they aren't exactly who she would have pictured Nick would be friends with.

Worse still, an old acquaintance from Millie's past has been invited, too. Penny Maybury. Millie and Nick's old colleague. Somebody Millie would rather have forgotten about. Somebody, in fact, that Millie has been trying very hard to forget.

Waking up on New Year's Eve, Penny is missing. A tragic accident Or something more sinister With a storm washing in from the Atlantic, nobody will be able reach the group before they find out.

One thing is for sure - they're going to see in the new year with a bang.

Tense, moody and claustrophobic, Auld Acquaintance is the unputdownable debut by Sofia Slater.

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'With razor-sharp wit, a whip-smart plot and an eerily unsettling island location - this is pretty much the perfect modern murder mystery. A proper page turner' - Ellery Lloyd, bestselling author of The Club

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'A tense, moody and terrifically atmospheric book, with a vice-like grip' - SJ Watson

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'Creepy and claustrophobic, [Auld Acquaintance] never loses its spell and reveals that Slater is an interesting new talent' - Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

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'Strong writing and characterisation elevate this "tense, moody and claustrophobic" debut thriller' - The Bookseller

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'The house party from hell has become something of a cliche in contemporary crime fiction, but Sofia Slater brings a welcome freshness to the theme in this charmingly written first novel' - Natasha Cooper, Literary Review

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Author Bio

Sofia Slater was raised in the American West, and lived in France, Scotland and Oxford before settling in London. She holds degrees in philosophy and languages from Smith College and UCL. As well as writing fiction, she translates from French and Spanish. Auld Acquaintance is her debut novel.