Keeper: The breath-taking literary thriller
By (Author) Jessica Moor
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
4th May 2021
21st January 2021
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: women sleuths
823.92
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
234g
'I'm speechless. Gripping, devastating, so so important. KEEPER is breath-taking' - CLARE MACKINTOSH He's been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it's an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of Widringham women's refuge where Katie worked don't agree. They say it's murder. Will you listen to them An addictive literary page-turner about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace, Keeper will leave you reeling long after the final page is turned.
A literary thriller, KEEPER is a compelling, tense and pacy read * The Observer, 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2020 *
Reading Keeper is a visceral experience ... cleverly reminding us that for some women simply existing in a man's world is more dangerous than anything else -- Araminta Hall, author of 'Our Kind of Cruelty'
Intense and compassionate . . . it made me furious and sad, but it also made me feel seen -- Hanna Jameson, author of 'The Last'
Male violence in all its forms is at the heart of Jessica Moor's confident and skilful debut * The Observer *
Jessica Moor studied English at Cambridge before completing a Creative Writing MA at Manchester University. Prior to this she spent a year working in the violence against women and girls sector and this experience inspired her first novel, Keeper.