Under a Silent Moon
By (Author) Elizabeth Haynes
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
29th April 2014
8th May 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Short-listed for CrimeFest e-Dunnit Awards 2015 (UK)
Paperback
480
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 30mm
300g
In the crisp, early morning hours, the police are called to a suspected murder at a farm outside a small English village. A beautiful young woman has been found dead, blood all over the cottage she lives in. At the same time, police respond to a reported female suicide, where a car has fallen into a local quarry.
As DCI Louisa Smith and her team gather the evidence, they discover a link between these two women, a link which has sealed their dreadful fate one cold night, under a silent moon.Told in a unique way, using source documents that allow readers to interpret the evidence alongside DCI Louisa Smith and her team, Under a Silent Moon is an unsettling and compulsively readable novel that will keep you gripped until the very last page.Haynes does a great job in ratcheting up the suspense . . . and there are many lip-biting moments - Daily Mail
As Haynes herself is a police intelligence analyst she is well placed to add authenticity to her skills of storytelling. Unputdownable - Red MagazineIntense, gripping . . . utterly unputdownable - S. J. WatsonCheck the locks on your doors and windows and surrender to this obsessive thriller - Karin SlaughterA chilling, page-turning read - Rosamund LuptonElizabeth Haynes worked for many years as a police analyst. Her debut novel, Into the Darkest Corner, won Amazon's Book of the Year in 2011 and Amazon's Rising Star Award for debut novels.
Elizabeth grew up in Sussex and studied English, German and Art History at Leicester University. She is currently taking a career break having worked for the past seven years as a police intelligence analyst. Elizabeth now lives in Kent with her husband and son, and writes in coffee shops and a shed-office which takes up most of the garden. She is a regular participant in, and a Municipal Liaison for, National Novel Writing Month - an annual challenge to write 50,000 words in the month of November.