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The Donor, Helen FitzGerald's fifth novel, is a nail-biting psychological thriller about a single dad's horrorfying dilemma. Will, who has given up everything to raise his twin daughters, has a terrible choice to make when both girls suffer kidney failure age 16.Should he save one child? If so, which one?Should he buy a kidney - be an organ tourist?Should he sacrifice himself?Or is there a fourth solution - one so terrible it has never even crossed his mind? Perfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, The Donor is a gripping thriller about a single dad faced with organ donation as his twin daughters battle to survive. Helen FitzGerald is also the acclaimed author of The Cry, which was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award.

Dead Lovely is the debut novel from Helen FitzGerald, the bestselling author of The Cry and My Last Confession. What happens when your best friend gets what you've always wanted?Krissie and Sarah - best friends for years - have always wanted different things from life. Krissie has no desire to settle down, whereas Sarah married a doctor in her early twenties and is dying to start a family. So when Krissie becomes pregnant after a fling and Sarah can't seem to conceive, things get a little tense.They decide to go on holiday along with Sarah's husband in the hope of getting their friendship back on track. But what starts as a much-needed break soon becomes a nightmare of sexual tension, murder and mayhem... 'Outrageous, clever, funny, poignant. Helen Fitzgerald really is one to watch.' Mo HayderPerfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, Dead Lovely is a debut novel, a fast-paced thriller and a dark, enthralling examination of friendship. Helen FitzGerald's other books include The Cry, The Exit, My Last Confession and The Donor.

When she starts her new job as a parole officer, Krissie is happy and in love. Then she meets convicted murderer Jeremy, and begins to believe he may be innocent. Her growing obsession with his case threatens to jeopardise everything - her job, her relationship and her life.Perfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, My Last Confession is a dark and compelling psychological thriller that traces a young parole officer and her dangerous obsession with a convicted murderer. Helen FitzGerald is also the acclaimed author of The Cry, which was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year award. 'Thinking woman's noir.' Sunday Telegraph'Cool, classy and sexy.' Daily Mirror'A story that adeptly escalates to a satisfyingly shocking climax.' Big Issue

Longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year AwardWhen a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?Perfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, The Cry was widely acclaimed as one of the best psychological thrillers of the year. There's a gripping moral dilemma at its heart and characters who will keep you guessing on every page.

NOW A MAJOR NEW BBC ONE DRAMAThe Cry was longlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. When a baby goes missing on a lonely roadside in Australia, it sets off a police investigation that will become a media sensation and dinner-table talk across the world. Lies, rumours and guilt snowball, causing the parents, Joanna and Alistair, to slowly turn against each other. Finally Joanna starts thinking the unthinkable: could the truth be even more terrible than she suspected? And what will it take to make things right?Perfect for fans of Julia Crouch, Sophie Hannah and Laura Lippman, The Cry was widely acclaimed as one of the best psychological thrillers of the year. There's a gripping moral dilemma at its heart and characters who will keep you guessing on every page.

Some people love goodbyes...23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting, but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother puts her foot down - and soon discovers that her new workplace contains many secrets.One of the residents at the home, 82-year-old Rose, is convinced that something sinister is going on in Room 7 and that her own life is under threat. But Rose has dementia - so what does she actually know, and who would believe her anyway?As Catherine starts investigating Rose's allegations, terrible revelations surface about everyone involved. Can Catherine find out what's really going on before it's too late?

Some people love goodbyes...23-year-old Catherine is mainly interested in Facebook and flirting, but she reluctantly takes a job at a local care home after her mother puts her foot down - and soon discovers that her new workplace contains many secrets.One of the residents at the home, 82-year-old Rose, is convinced that something sinister is going on in Room 7 and that her own life is under threat. But Rose has dementia - so what does she actually know, and who would believe her anyway?As Catherine starts investigating Rose's allegations, terrible revelations surface about everyone involved. Can Catherine find out what's really going on before it's too late?

So far, twenty-three thousand and ninety six people have seen me online. They include my mother, my father, my little sister, my grandmother, my other grandmother, my grandfather, my boss, my sixth year Biology teacher and my boyfriend James.When Leah Doyle and her adopted sister Su go on holiday together to Magaluf to celebrate their A-levels, only Leah returns home. Her successful, swotty sister remains abroad, humiliated and afraid: there is an online video of her, drunkenly performing a sex act in a nightclub. And everyone has seen it.Jennifer Doyle, mother of the girls, successful court judge, is furious. How could this have happened? How can she bring justice to these men who took advantage of her dutiful, virginal daughter? What role has Leah played in all this? And can Jennifer find Su and bring her back home when Su doesn't want to be found?

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In this unique and compassionate guide, renowned grief counselor Helen Fitzgerald turns her attention to the special needs of adolescents struggling with loss and gives teens the tools they need to work through their pain and grief.Although the circumstances surrounding a death are difficult to handle at any age, adolescence brings with it challenges and struggles that until now have been largely overlooked. Writing not only about but also for teenagers, Fitzgerald adeptly covers the entire range of situations in which teens may find themselves grieving a death, whether the cause was old age, terminal illness, school violence, or suicide. She helps teens address the gamut of strong and difficult emotions they will experience and the new situations they will face, including family changes, issues with friends, problems at school, and the courage needed to move forward with one''s own life. Using the clear and accessible format that has made The Mourning Handbook and The Grieving Child enduring and helpful classics, Fitzgerald guides teens through everything from the sickbed to the funeral, from the first day back at school to the first anniversary of the death. Above all, she lets teens know that even in their darkest hour, they are not alone.

Making a Child''s World Whole Again Explaining death to a child is one of the most difficult tasks a parent or other relative can face. The Grieving Child offers practical, compassionate advice for helping a child cope with the death of a parent or other loved one. Parents of children from preschool age to the teen years will find much-needed guidance, covering: • Helping a child visit the seriously ill or dying • Using language appropriate to a child''s age level • Selecting useful books about death • Handling especially difficult situations, including murder and suicide • Deciding whether a child should attend a funeral With a new chapter devoted to the special issues of the bereaved toddler, The Grieving Child provides invaluable suggestions for dealing with a child''s emotional responses (including anger, guilt, and depression) and helping a child adjust to a new life.

Helen Fitzgerald, author of The Grieving Child, has compiled a guide to help readers practically and emotionally grieve the death of loved ones. No one should be left to grieve alone. Even with the help of friends and family, grieving the death of a loved one can be a complex, sometimes overwhelming, process. The Mourning Handbook is written as a companion to those mourners in need of practical and emotional assistance during the trying times before and after the death of a loved one. Having counseled thousands of people who have experienced loss, Helen Fitzgerald gives special attention to the complex emotions that can accompany especially traumatic situations, such as when a loved one has been murdered, when there have been multiple deaths, when a body has not been recovered, or when the mourner has been the inadvertent cause of death. Designed to conform to the special needs of the bereaved, The Mourning Handbook is written and organized in an accessible style punctuated by real stories of people who have experienced every kind of loss. With many subchapters and cross references, it can be consulted for a specific problem or read at length.

This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies. A large number of interactions between well-educated immigrants from all continents and from more than a hundred countries, together with some including native speakers, are examined and participants’ answers to questionnaires compared with their actual communicative behaviour. The author raises questions of interest to many groups: linguists, educators, business people and sociologists. Which values are most salient and enduring, and which cause clashes between cultural groups? To what extent do people retain the communication style identified with their first language and how do these different styles impact on others?

A deliciously dark, unapologetically funny, and nail-bitingly tense psychological thriller by the international bestselling author of The CryNUMBER ONE BESTSELLER***Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR******Sunday Times TOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years******Longlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020***‘Shocking, gripping and laugh-out-loud hilarious from the first line to the last. Brilliant’ Erin Kelly‘This frenetic novel’s strongest assets are its sheer verbal energy and the acerbic views of its heroine, who resembles a female Frankie Boyle’ Sunday Times‘The main character is one of the most extraordinary you’ll meet between the pages of a book’ Ian Rankin‘A scandalously rude comic masterpiece’ Daily Telegraph‘Sublime’ Guardian_________________Mary Shields is a moody, acerbic probation offer, dealing with some of Glasgow’s worst cases, and her job is on the line. Liam Macdowall was imprisoned for murdering his wife, and he’s published a series of letters to the dead woman, in a book that makes him an unlikely hero – and a poster boy for Men’s Rights activists.Liam is released on licence into Mary’s care, but things are far from simple. Mary develops a poisonous obsession with Liam and his world, and when her son and Liam’s daughter form a relationship, Mary will stop at nothing to impose her own brand of justice … with devastating consequences.A heart-pounding, relentless and chilling psychological thriller, rich with deliciously dark and unapologetic humour, Worst Case Scenario is also a perceptive, tragic and hugely relevant book by one of the most exciting names in crime fiction._________________‘Laced with pitch-dark acerbic humour, the classic thriller gets a hell of a twist’ Heat‘This darkly, funny, shocking and surprisingly emotional thriller is unlike anything you’ve ever read before’ Fabulous Magazine‘This novel is a funny, agonising account of one good woman’s battle with rage, guilt, fear, duty and disaster’ Literary Review‘Absolutely compelling company from start to finish in this wonderful, energetic, hard-hitting and deeply funny novel’ Big Issue‘Simply stunning. Dark, uncompromising, funny, and almost impossible to put down’ Luca Veste‘Outrageous, extremely funny and ultimately devastating’ Ambrose Parry‘Dark humour and darker truths permeate a thrilling crime novel that is fabulously transgressive and completely unique … nobody writes like Helen Fitzgerald’ Mark Billingham‘Helen Fitzgerald is one of a kind, and a welcome breath of fresh air in the world of off-beat but achingly relatable crime fiction’ SJI Holliday‘A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time. Great stuff!’ Mark Edwards

Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A heartbreaking, nail-biting disaster-noir thriller from the bestselling author of The Cry and Worst Case Scenario.‘Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novel’ Erin Kelly, author of Watch Her Fall‘Tantalisingly powerful’ The Times‘Ash Mountain is the author at her masterly best … I loved it!’ Louise Candlish, author of The Heights________________Fran hates her hometown, and she thought she’d escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway.She returns home to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town of Ash Mountain, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem, she falls in love for the first time, and her demanding dad tests her patience, all in the unbearable heat of an Australian summer. As past friendships and rivalries are renewed, and new ones forged, Fran’s tumultuous home life is the least of her worries, when old crimes rear their heads and a devastating bushfire ravages the town and all of its inhabitants…Simultaneously a warm, darkly funny portrait of small-town life – and a woman and a land in crisis – and a shocking and truly distressing account of a catastrophic event that changes things forever, Ash Mountain is a heart-breaking slice of domestic noir, and a disturbing disaster thriller that you will never forget…________________‘A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event, and Ash Mountain is magnificent’ Mark Billingham, author of Rabbit Hole‘There is plenty of human depravity in the plot but none of that is as terrifyingly overmastering as the fire’ Literary Review‘Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this – but that only makes you hungry for more’ The Sun‘Dark, atmospheric and terrifying’ Ambrose Parry, author of A Corruption of Blood‘Compelling’ IndependentPraise for Helen FitzGerald***Worst Case Scenario was Shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2020***‘The plotting is intricate and beautifully handled, and the narrative pace is absolutely breakneck … a wonderful, energetic, hard-hitting and deeply funny novel’ The Big Issue‘The main character is one of the most extraordinary you’ll meet between the pages of a book’ Ian Rankin, author of A Song for the Dark times‘A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh out loud funny at the same time’ Mark Edwards, author of The House Guest‘The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist’ Heat‘FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth’ Daily Telegraph‘Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this – but that only makes you hungry for more’ The Sun

When a middle-aged couple downsizes to the countryside for an easier life, their two daughters become isolated, argumentative and violent … A chilling, vicious and darkly funny psychological thriller from bestselling author Helen FitzGerald. ‘Sharp, shocking and savagely funny. Helen Fitzgerald is a wonderfully original storyteller’ Chris Whitaker ‘A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event … magnificent’ Mark Billingham ‘I devoured Keep Her Sweet … shite parenting and a dysfunctional sister relationship goes to fatal extremes’ Erin Kelly–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––Desperate to enjoy their empty nest, Penny and Andeep downsize to the countryside, to forage, upcycle and fall in love again, only to be joined by their two twenty-something daughters, Asha and Camille.Living on top of each other in a tiny house, with no way to make money, tensions simmer, and as Penny and Andeep focus increasingly on themselves, the girls become isolated, argumentative and violent.When Asha injures Camille, a family therapist is called in, but she shrugs off the escalating violence between the sisters as a classic case of sibling rivalry … and the stress of the family move. But this is not sibling rivalry. The sisters are in far too deep for that.This is a murder, just waiting to happen…Chilling, vicious and darkly funny, Keep Her Sweet is not just a tense, sinister psychological thriller, but a startling look at sister relationships and they bonds they share … or shatter. –––––––––––––––––––––––––‘A wonderful book about a toxic family … funny, shocking and full of heart. FitzGerald at her coruscating best' Doug Johnstone ‘Definitely one for those who love deadly dysfunctional families, whip-smart writing, and their stories dark, dark, deliciously dark’ Amanda Jennings ‘A novel rippling with power and intensity. A true page-turner’ Michael Wood ‘Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling … a book you’ll want to talk about’ Miranda Dickinson ‘Helen Fitzgerald has an uncanny ability to balance savagery and hilarity … an absolute banger of a book’ Matt Wesolowski 'A crazy but addictive, dark and funny, read’ Louise Beech  ‘Dark humour sings from the pages’ Russel McLean ‘A fascinating and original tale of a family in rapid decline’ Jen Med’s Book Reviews‘You will canter through this psychological thriller’ Café Thinking Praise for Helen FitzGerald*Worst Case Scenario was Guardian, Telegraph, Herald Scotland AND The Week BOOK OF THE YEAR**Sunday Times TOP 40 Crime Novels in the Last 5 Years**Longlisted for Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2020* ‘The main character is one of the most extraordinary you’ll meet between the pages of a book’ Ian Rankin‘Sublime’ Guardian ‘This darkly, funny, shocking and surprisingly emotional thriller is unlike anything you’ve ever read before’ Fabulous ‘A dark, comic masterpiece which manages to be both excruciatingly tense and laugh out loud funny at the same time’ Mark Edwards ‘Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying, yet suffused with the humanity and humour you expect from a Helen Fitzgerald novel’ Erin Kelly‘Tantalisingly powerful’ The Times‘Ash Mountain is the author at her masterly best … I loved it!’ Louise Candlish‘The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist’ Heat‘FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth’ Daily Telegraph‘Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this – but that only makes you hungry for more’ The Sun

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.  'A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event … magnificent' Mark Billingham  ‘Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell – this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form’ Doug Johnstone  ‘[Lou] is irresistible and very funny … The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing’ Literary Review  _______  They’re the housemates from Hell…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.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…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.Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman…  __________________________  ‘Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny … an amazingly talented writer’ Michael Wood  ‘A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity' B M Carroll  Praise for Helen FitzGerald  **Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**  'Sharp, shocking and savagely funny’ Chris Whitaker  ‘Dark, dark, deliciously dark' Amanda Jennings  'Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling' Miranda Dickinson  'The main character is one of the most extraordinary you'll meet between the pages of a book' Ian Rankin'Sublime' Guardian'A dark, comic masterpiece' Mark Edwards'Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying’ Erin Kelly'Tantalisingly powerful' The Times'The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist' Heat'FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth' Daily Telegraph'Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this’ Sun

Ein Roman wie ein paar Handschellen – hart, sexy und fesselnd.So etwas gab es lange nicht zu lesen – ausgenommen vielleicht von Karen Duve oder A. L. Kennedy. »Manche Menschen finden auf einen Schlag zu sich selbst, wie bei einer Explosion. Ich selbst habe Stück für Stück zu mir selbst gefunden, mehr oder weniger durch eine Reihe von Zufällen. Das erste Stück habe ich in einem Zelt auf dem West Highland Way gefunden. Meine beste Freundin Sarah schlief. Ihr Mann lag neben ihr, und ich schluckte sein Sperma. Ich entdeckte das nächste Stück von mir am Grund einer Klippe, als ich Sarahs toten Körper dort entlangschleifte, während ihr Kopf gegen die Felsen schlug. Sarah, meine beste Freundin seit Kinderzeiten, die ich verraten und ermordet hatte. Und dann, in der Dunkelheit des Dachbodens meiner Eltern, fand ich den Rest von mir.« So rasant beginnt Helen FitzGeralds Debütroman, in dem Härte und Wärme, Unbarmherzigkeit und Liebe gefährlich nah beieinander liegen.Es ist die Geschichte von Krissie und Sarah, unzertrennlich seit Kindertagen, deren Freundschaft abrupt am Fuße einer Klippe endet. Krissie, eher der chaotische Typ, trinkt, nimmt Pilze, vögelt herum, trifft falsche Entscheidungen und ist für ihren Sohn alles andere als eine perfekte Mutter. Sarah hingegen hat alles im Griff, sie hat ihren Traummann Kyle geheiratet. Zu ihrem perfekten Leben fehlt ihr nur noch eins: ein Kind. Doch ihre Verbissenheit macht ihre Ehe zu einem Fegefeuer aus Frust und Zeugungsunfähigkeit. Als die drei Freunde auf einer Zelttour durch die schottischen Highlands mal richtig abschalten wollen, geht alles schief. Krissie und Kyle stürzen sich Hals über Kopf in eine Affäre und Sarah von einem Felsen. Doch das ist erst der Anfang des Höllentrips, bei dem nichts so bleibt, wie es gewesen ist.

Ein Job im Knast ist keine Kaffeefahrt.Nach dem dramatischen Tod ihrer besten Freundin musste Krissie Donald erst einmal zur Ruhe kommen. Jetzt ist sie fest entschlossen, ihr Leben in den Griff zu kriegen: ein glückliches Familienleben mit Chas, ihrer großen Liebe, und mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Robbie, dazu eine neue Wohnung und ein neuer Job. In einer romantischen Anwandlung kauft Krissie sich sogar probehalber ein Brautkleid.Aber der neue Job bringt alles durcheinander. Als Sozialarbeiterin im Sandhill-Gefängnis soll Krissie anhand weniger Gespräche entscheiden, wer auf Bewährung freikommt und wer nicht. Einer ihrer ersten Klienten ist Jeremy Bagshaw: gutaussehend und sympathisch, von grausamen Mitgefangenen schikaniert, mit einer grauenvollen Kindheit, und vielleicht sogar unschuldig. Jeremy soll eine Frau brutal erstochen haben, aber Krissie kommen Zweifel. Sie lernt Amanda kennen, Jeremys Verlobte, und freundet sich mit ihr an. Es dauert nur ein paar Wochen, bis Krissie knietief in einer verzwickten Beziehungsgeschichte steckt und auf eigene Faust versucht, Jeremys Unschuld zu beweisen. Mit fatalen Folgen. Sie verstrickt sich in ein Netz aus Fehltritten, Lügen und Manipulation, das sie und die, die sie liebt, in Lebensgefahr bringt.Eine ganz spezielle Mischung aus schwarzem Humor und Herzenswärme, aus Coolness und Charme – Helen FitzGeralds Romane sind suchtauslösend.Nach ihrem Bestseller-Debüt Furchtbar lieb lässt Helen FitzGerald ihre liebenswerte und schrecklich inkonsequente Heldin wieder in einen Höllentrip hineinstolpern – und der Leser folgt ihr atemlos.

Humor, so schwarz wie ein OP-Saal bei Stromausfall.Ein verzweifelter Vater und zwei kranke Töchter. Eine Junkie-Mutter und ihr krimineller Liebhaber. Und keine Spenderniere weit und breit! Helen FitzGerald hat einen düster-komischen Familienroman geschrieben, der kein Auge trocken lässt.Will Marion ist alleinerziehender Vater der 16-jährigen Zwillinge Georgie und Kay. Kay ist liebenswert und fröhlich, Georgie aggressiv und verschlossen. Eines haben beide gemeinsam: Sie brauchen eine Spenderniere, sonst werden sie sterben. Und Will kann nur eine Niere vergeben. Nach langem Grübeln beschließt er, lieber doch nicht die Niere eines armen Filipino im Internet zu kaufen oder einen klinisch perfekten Selbstmord zu begehen. Stattdessen setzt er einen Privatdetektiv darauf an, Cynthia zu finden. Sie ist die Mutter von Georgie und Kay und vor 13 Jahren mit Heath, ihrem Dealer und Lover, abgehauen. Ihre Niere könnte nun das Leben einer der Töchter retten, glaubt Will. Doch Cynthia hat andere Pläne, als sie nach Schottland zurückkehrt: Sie will Heroin, und sie will Heath aus dem Gefängnis freibekommen. Außerdem weigert sich der Arzt ohnehin, eine Junkie-Niere zu transplantieren.Will ist ratlos. Während es Kay immer schlechter geht und Georgie trotz Dialyse und Todesangst auf der Suche nach der großen Liebe ist, schreibt ihr Vater eines Nachts im Rotweindunst eine verzweifelte Liste: Pro und Contra, Georgie versus Kay …In Helen FitzGeralds bisher bestem Roman, wie immer mit tiefschwarzem Humor und doch voller Herzenswärme, treffen die Schicksale ihrer Protagonisten auf dramatische und oft makabre Art zusammen. Sie erzählt die Geschichte von zwei Mädchen und ihrem Vater, die verdammt übel dran sind und dennoch nicht aufgeben wollen.

Eine Serienmonogamistin auf Rachefeldzug?Von Lampenfieber vor der Hochzeit gepackt, will Catriona ein letztes Mal ihre Exfreunde treffen. Das Problem: Sie beschließt, mit jedem noch einmal zu vögeln. Und am Morgen darauf sind alle Männer tot.»Sie müssen nur sagen, ob er es ist« – beim Anblick des Penis ihres Exfreundes Achmed auf dem Leichentisch muss sie tatsächlich auf lachen. Eindeutig kein guter Zeitpunkt. Catriona Marsden, erfolgreiche schottische Fernsehmoderatorin, landet im Gefängnis, angeklagt wegen Mordes an ihren drei Exfreunden.Dabei wollte sie doch nur ein letztes Mal mit ihnen schlafen, in einem nicht sehr wohlüberlegten Plan, eine Woche vor ihrer Hochzeit mit den Geschichten von damals endlich abschließen. Dass ihre Liebhaber kurz darauf tot sind und man ihnen mit einer Gartenschere die Genitalien abgeschnitten hat, bringt sie in Erklärungsnot.Mit Hilfe einer Journalistin versucht sie, ihr eigenes Vorleben noch einmal durchzugehen, um herauszufinden, wer der Mörder sein könnte. Doch der Versuch geht nach hinten los: Statt sich auf ihre Seite zu schlagen, macht ihre Biografin sie zur Psychopathin. Wer wird ihr jetzt noch glauben und was kann sie noch tun?Helen FitzGerald wechselt virtuos zwischen schwarzem Humor und psychologischer Einfühlung in ihre Charaktere. Am Ende bleibt kein Auge trocken und kein Schreckenunerlebt. FitzGerald''sche Angstlust vom Feinsten.»FitzGeralds Roman zeigt vor allem eines: Die interessantesten Bücher sind oft die, die sich eben nicht einordnen lassen wollen.« (Irene Binal, Deutschlandradio)