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served by my young manager, Jess and her assistant waiter, Katie.

“You can never go wrong praising a writer for his writing.” Gualeschi blinked with amusement behind his glasses.

“But everyone must praise you, all the time.”

“Not enough for my satisfaction, or with sufficient specificity. My mother thinks my apartment is too big, but I fill it with my ego.”

layer upon layer

Elegantly written and utterly chilling. A dark and twisting novel of psychological suspense that will have you turning pages and checking your locks’ Emma Viskic, author of Those Who Perish

tender and wise as well as pulse-poundingly tense’ Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place

love’ Amy Suiter Clarke, author of Girl, 11

in mud. Everything about her screams

I might die exhausted, penniless and in pain but at least I’d die fit and lean. If it was an open-casket funeral people would say, ‘She’s looking good, so slim.’

The outside world was the real world.