From the author of Richard and Judy Book Club pick, The Memory Wood... The edge-of-your-seat, chilling thriller you won't forget – the perfect holiday read for fans of Alex Michaelides and Lucy Foley. 'Blood-chilling...The best hook of any thriller in the last few years' – Helen Fields, bestselling author of The Profiler WHEN DID YOUR CHILD BECOME A KILLER? When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those friends who became parents first: you’d do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, to keep them safe. So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max covered in blood – panic flooding his voice, swearing it was a mistake - Joseph does the only thing he can. He helps Max bury the body. Joseph thinks that’s the end of the nightmare. Until he finds Max with stricken eyes and bloody hands once again . . . You’d do anything for your child – even cover up a murder. But would you do it twice? Readers can't get enough of The Bodies: ‘A twisty, relatable, endlessly gripping thriller’ – TM LOGAN, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Daughter ‘Brilliantly written and genuinely terrifying’ – that's life (Crime Scene) ‘The definition of unputdownable. A fantastic thriller.’ – LISA BALLANTYNE, bestselling author of The Guilty One ‘So tense I could barely breathe!’ – JACKIE KABLER, bestselling author of The Revenge Plot ‘A razor-sharp thriller, atmospheric, intense, unnerving and addictive, I devoured every inch of this book!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘I was hooked after the first chapter....unputdownable!’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘Never lets up with thrills...deserves 5 stars and more’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ‘A fabulous thriller of a book...truly nail-biting’ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Praise for Sam Lloyd: 'Propulsive, sinister, gripping.' - ALEX MICHAELIDES 'An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller.' – SHARI LAPENA 'Original, creepy, utterly addictive.' - ANDREA MARA ‘Remarkable. Undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time.’ – LESLEY KARA 'Fiendishly clever.' – Sunday Times ‘A rare new thriller talent.’ – Daily Mail

サム・ロイドが描くのは、無条件の愛がいかにして共犯という深淵へ堕ちるかという、道徳的限界を問う凄絶なドラマです。親子の絆という聖域に潜む病理を、凍りつくような緊張感で抉り出す筆致は圧巻。日常が悪夢へ変貌する瞬間を捉えた、読者の倫理観を激しく揺さぶる一級品の心理サスペンスに仕上がっています。 物語の本質は、二度目の過ちという逃れられない絶望にあります。息子のために手を汚す父親の葛藤は、読者に「どこまで踏み越えるか」という究極の問いを突きつけ、血の繋がりに潜む執着と恐怖を浮き彫りにします。親の本能を試す容赦ない人間洞察こそが本作の真髄であり、魂を削るような濃密な読書体験を約束してくれます。