Christian White

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?

The Wife and the Widow

The Nowhere Child, is a pacey suspense thriller set between Melbourne and Kentucky.

The Nowhere Child

In the summer of 1989, a local teen goes missing from the idyllic suburb of Camp Hill in Australia. As rumours of Satanic rituals swirl, schoolteacher Tom Witter becomes convinced he holds the key to the disappearance. When the police won't listen, he takes matters into his own hands with the help of the missing girl's father and a local neighbourhood watch group. But as dark secrets are revealed and consequences to past actions are faced, Tom learns that the only way out of the darkness is to walk deeper into it. Wild Place peels back the layers of suburbia, exposing what's hidden underneath - guilt, desperation, violence - and attempts to answer the question: Why do good people do bad things? From the international bestseller Christian White, Wild Place is a white-knuckle descent into a street near you.

Wild Place

Second Skin

Still House

Vielschichtig und verstörend – der Bestseller aus Australien! »Vor 28 Jahren verschwand ein kleines Mädchen. Dieses Mädchen bist du ...« Kim Leamy, Fotografin aus Melbourne, wird aus heiterem Himmel von einem Fremden angesprochen, der Unglaubliches erzählt: Er behauptet, ihr wirklicher Name sei Sammy Went und sie sei vor 28 Jahren in einer Kleinstadt in Kentucky entführt worden. Kim hält das für einen schlechten Scherz oder eine Verwechslung, hat sie doch hier in Australien eine geborgene Kindheit verbracht. Und doch bleiben Zweifel. Zweifel, die Kim schließlich in Sammys kleine Heimatstadt in den USA führen: in eine beklemmende Welt von religiösem Fanatismus und dunklen Geheimnissen. Die Wahrheit, die Kim dort findet, ist verstörend – und tödlich ...

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Das andere Mädchen

Ingenting er slik det kan virke i denne geniale psykologiske thrilleren. Handlingen utspiller seg på en vinterkald øy på Australias sørkyst. Det hele begynner da Kateog datteren skal møte familiefaren på flyet fra London. Men John dukker ikke opp, og langsomt går det opp for Kate at han aldri har vært i London, at han løy i skypesamtalene, og at han nå er forsvunnet. Jakten på sannheten om John fører henne til det forhatte, arvede feriehuset på Belport Island. På den forblåste ferieøya er det bare en håndfull fastboende i vinterhalvåret, og de møter Kate med skepsis og motvilje. På øya møter hun Abby, som har måttet forsone seg med at mannen hennes er en morder. De to kvinnene hjemsøkes av det samme spørsmålet: Hvor godt kjenner man egentlig den man elsker? Er det sånn at det fins en sammenheng i det som har skjedd med mennene deres?

Kona og enken

“A nervy, soulful, genuinely surprising it-could-happen-to-you thriller — a book to make you peer over your shoulder for days afterwards.”—A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child is screenwriter Christian White’s internationally bestselling debut thriller of psychological suspense about a woman uncovering devastating secrets about her family—and her very identity... Kimberly Leamy is a photography teacher in Melbourne, Australia. Twenty-six years earlier, Sammy Went, a two-year old girl vanished from her home in Manson, Kentucky. An American accountant who contacts Kim is convinced she was that child, kidnapped just after her birthday. She cannot believe the woman who raised her, a loving social worker who died of cancer four years ago, crossed international lines to steal a toddler. On April 3rd, 1990, Jack and Molly Went’s daughter Sammy disappeared from the inside their Kentucky home. Already estranged since the girl’s birth, the couple drifted further apart as time passed. Jack did his best to raise and protect his other daughter and son while Molly found solace in her faith. The Church of the Light Within, a Pentecostal fundamentalist group who handle poisonous snakes as part of their worship, provided that faith. Without Sammy, the Wents eventually fell apart. Now, with proof that she and Sammy are in fact the same person, Kim travels to America to reunite with a family she never knew she had. And to solve the mystery of her abduction—a mystery that will take her deep into the dark heart of religious fanaticism where she must fight for her life against those determined to save her soul...

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