When I Was Ten

When I Was Ten

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197(Ht mm) 130(Wdt mm) 400

Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. <i>Rattle</i>, her debut novel, received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers, was the subject of a huge international auction and has been translated into several languages. She has since written bestsellers <i>The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten </i>and <i>Into the Dark, </i>in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past<i>.</i> Fiona lives with her family in Essex. An unimaginable crime has devastating consequences, twenty-one years on, in this thrilling novel by the rising star of crime fiction, Fiona Cummins. <b><i>When I Was Ten</i> is the stay-up-all-night thriller by acclaimed crime author Fiona Cummins. ‘Grips like a vice’ – Val McDermid</b>, author of the Karen Pirie series <b>‘</b><b>Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced</b><b>’</b><b> - <i>Daily Mail</i></b> Twenty-one years ago, Dr Richard Carter and his wife Pamela were killed in what has become the most infamous double murder of the modern age. Their ten year-old daughter – nicknamed the Angel of Death – spent eight years in a children’s secure unit and is living quietly under an assumed name with a family of her own. Now, on the anniversary of the trial, a documentary team has tracked down her older sister, compelling her to break two decades of silence. Her explosive interview sparks national headlines and journalist Brinley Booth, a childhood friend of the Carter sisters, is tasked with covering the news story. For the first time, the three women are forced to confront what really happened that night – with devastating consequences for them all. <b>‘I finished it with my heart in my mouth. Highly recommended’ – Louise Candlish</b>, author of <i>Our House</i> <b>‘Dark, creepy and ultimately compassionate’ – JP Delaney</b>, author of <i>The Girl Before</i> <b>‘Utterly compelling; a true just-one-more-chapter thriller’ – Clare Mackintosh</b>, author of <i>The Last Party</i>