Panic

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After posting a drunken rant that goes horrifically viral, Bronte needs a place to lie low. Jobless, friendless, broke, she volunteers as a carer on an isolated rural property. She wont be paid for looking after dementia sufferer Nell, but at least shell have a place to stay. Brontes host is Nells daughter Veda, who runs spiritual rebirthing retreats. She also claims the rights of a sovereign citizen and rejects the authority of the state, refusing even to register her car. She has acquired a small but devoted following of the like-minded.

Are they harmless cranks, with their conspiracy theories and outrage at government overreach Or dangerously paranoid domestic terrorists And what is the dark secret that Nell, in her confused state, keeps harking back to Bronte, increasingly uneasy, would be getting far away from the whole placeif she had anywhere else to go.

In Panic, master storyteller Catherine Jinks delivers a tense, claustrophobic thriller of isolation and fear that will have you on the edge of your seat.

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The fear is palpable and crawls off the page, so the reader can feel it too...This is a book that needs to be read with the lights on, and one that you will be unwilling to put down. * ArtsHub on Traced *
If you enjoy a psychological thrillera kind of cat and mouse bookI would certainly recommend thisIts a really good read to curl up with on a wintry night. * RNZ Nine to Noon on Traced *
[Jinks] crafts a taut, tense thriller of a narrative, expertly cranking up the suspense notch by notch. * Saturday Paper on Traced *

Author Bio

Catherine Jinks books for adults, young adults and children have been published in a dozen countries and have won numerous awards, including a Victorian Premiers Literary Award and the CBCA Book of the Year Award (four times). She lives in the Blue Mountains.