Orenda Books Good Samaritans

Shortlisted for Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers Awards Longlisted for the Guardians Not the Booker Prize THRILLER OF THE YEAR in GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND DAILY EXPRESS Totally addictive. Like Fight Club, only darker S.J. Watson I loved this book. Dark and at times almost comical, a great blend of crime thriller and the darkest imaginable domestic noir Sarah Pinborough Dark, deviant and disturbing domestic noir one of the most entrancing, sophisticated and page-turning psychological thrillers of the year _________________ One crossed wire, three dead bodies and six bottles of bleach Seth Beauman cant sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she is talking to The Samaritans. But a seemingly harmless, late-night hobby turns into something more for Seth and for Hadley, and soon their late-night talks are turning into day-time meet-ups. And then this dysfunctional love story turns into something altogether darker, when Seth brings Hadley home And someone is watching Dark, sexy, dangerous and wildly readable, Good Samaritans marks the scorching return of one of crime fictions most exceptional voices. _________________ So dark, so cool Lisa Howells, Heat Magazine Will Carvers invigoratingly nasty novel is a bleak vision of life: not the whole truth of it, thank god, but true enough to impart to the reader the thrill of genuine discomfort, presented with the chilly conviction of Simenons most unflinching romans dues and just as horribly addictive Jake Kerridge, The Telegraph Carver weaves these strands together for an unsettling but compelling mixture of the banal, the horrific and, at times, the near-comic, wrong-footing the reader at every turn Laura Wilson, Guardian Must Read! Daily Express Beautiful, gripping and disturbing in equal measure, a postcard from the razors edge of the connected world we live in Kevin Wignall Possibly the most interesting and original writer in the crime-fiction genre, and I've loved his books for years. Good Samaritans is his best to date dark, slick, gripping, and impossible to put down. You'll be sucked in from the first page Luca Veste Oh My God, Good Samaritans is amazing. Im a little in love with your writing Will Carver Helen FitzGerald, Author of The Cry Autorid: Will Carver