Cold Light

Jenn Ashworth

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"Extremely intense and powerfully intriguing."
--Waterstone's

"[Ashworth] Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell."
--The Times (London)

Cold Light by Jenn Ashworth is a hauntingly beautiful and shocking psychological thriller in the vein of the bestselling novels of Tana French--a darkly compelling story of secrets between two teenage friends in a small English town. Ashworth already has created great buzz in the U.K. thanks to her stunning debut novel, A Kind of Intimacy, winner of the prestigious Betty Trask Award, and now Cold Light places her in elite literary company--alongside Laura Lippman, Kate Atkinson, and other acclaimed masters of intelligent, emotionally powerful mystery and suspense. An unforgettable tale of friendship and memory--and the shattering truth behind a forgotten dead body newly unearthed--Cold Light is a most welcome addition to the crime fiction and thriller ranks.

Book Details

Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Publish Date: Oct 16th, 2012
Pages: 352
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 7.80in - 5.20in - 0.90in - 0.55lb
EAN: 9780062076038
Categories: • Psychological• Thrillers - Suspense• Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural

About the Author

Ashworth, Jenn: - Jenn Ashworth's first book, A Kind of Intimacy, won the U.K.'s Betty Trask Award. She lives in Preston, Lancashire, with her family and writes an award-winning blog at www.jennashworth.co.uk.

Praise for this book

"Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell." -- The Times (London)

"Hugely readable debut novel [...] about the inability to know others and ourselves." -- The Independent

"Extremely intense and powerfully intriguing." -- Waterstone's

'Ashworth has the rare gift of being able to make her reader feel perverse and voyeuristic, implicated somehow in the tragedy laid out on the pages.' -- Sunday Times (London)

A grimly atmospheric mystery. -- Sunday Express (London)

A psychological thriller of the first order. -- The Age (Australia)

Another cleverly skewed tale told from the self-conscious perspective of an outsider... arrestingly observant... Ashworth's second book confirms that the first was no one-off... her talent could take her a long way' -- The Guardian

A wonderful tale, beautifully told. -- Bella

A chilling, blackly funny novel with a surreal edge about the intensity of teenage friendship. -- Grazia