{"product_id":"halfway-house","title":"Halfway House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e On her first shift at an Edinburgh halfway house for violent offenders, a young woman is taken hostage … and that’s just the beginning… The twisty, shocking, darkly funny thriller by award-winning author Helen FitzGerald.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event … magnificent´ Mark Billingham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell – this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form´ Doug Johnstone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `[Lou] is irresistible and very funny … The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing´ Literary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e _______\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e They`re the housemates from Hell…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O´Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find … working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer – all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything – including her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e __________________________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny … an amazingly talented writer´ Michael Wood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity´ B M Carroll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Praise for Helen FitzGerald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e **Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Sharp, shocking and savagely funny´ Chris Whitaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Dark, dark, deliciously dark´ Amanda Jennings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling´ Miranda Dickinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `The main character is one of the most extraordinary you`ll meet between the pages of a book´ Ian Rankin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Sublime´ Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `A dark, comic masterpiece´ Mark Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying´ Erin Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Tantalisingly powerful´ The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist´ Heat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth´ Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e `Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this´ Sun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57305506546046,"sku":"NW9781914585708","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781914585708.jpg?v=1778528592","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/halfway-house","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}