Back to the Coast

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Maria has money problems, two children from a failed marriage and a depressive boy friend. When she gets pregnant she decides not to keep the baby and then the letters start to arrive. Threatening letters, from pro-life activists she thinks at first, but then she begins to suspect others, eventually her own boyfriend. She flees to her family home where her sister now lives. Isolated, set in the dunes of the Dutch coast, redolent with memories of a childhood she does not want to revisit. As the death threats follow her to her hiding place, Maria begins to fear not only for her life but her own sanity. This is relentless suspense writing: a description of Maria's hellish descent into a world of induced paranoia which ends with a narrow escape from a carefully planned murder.

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Praise for Saskia Noort and The Dinner Club:"Saskia Noort is a mystery writer of the heart as much as of the mind, a balance that marks her work with a flesh-and-blood humanity." Andrew Pyper, author of The Wildfire SeasonA"It's sharp, sexy and a riveting read.A" Sunday Telegraph A"A tangled web of deceit, adultery and financial shenanigans.A" The Times A"Affairs, deceit, manipulation, tax dodges and murder--there's nothing Noort shies away from stirring into the mix, nicely showing off the sinister side of the suburbs.A" Time OutA"In a novel that embodies the best in Eurocrime, Dutch thriller writer Saskia Noort turns a conventional mid-life crisis into something more sinister.A" The IndependentA"While there are echoes of Desperate Housewives here, this is closer to Mary Higgins Clark and is a good bet for her fans.A" Library Journal Review

Author Bio

Saskia Noort is a novelist and journalist. Born in 1967, she studied theatre and journalism in Utrecht, is married, the mother of two children and writes columns for such publications as Marie Claire and Playboy. Her novels are highly acclaimed literary thrillers and international bestsellers. The Dinner Club, published in English by Bitter Lemon Press in 2007, has sold over 500,000 copies in the Netherlands. Back to the Coast sold over 250,000 copies.