Halfway House by Helen FitzGerald (Paperback)

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

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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...

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`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