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How many times would you let your child get away with murder? The new break-out thriller from Sam Lloyd, author of Richard & Judy Book Club pick The Memory Wood. When you look down at your newborn baby, you realise they were right, those smug parents you've always rolled your eyes at- you'd do literally anything for your child. To make them happy, keep them safe. So when Joseph Carver wakes one night to find his teenage son Max scrubbing the kitchen, hands wet with blood and panic flooding his voice as he promises it was an accident, he didn't mean to do it, 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 how many times?

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Praise for Sam Lloyd * : * Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent. * Daily Mail * Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time. * Lesley Kara * An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller. * Shari Lapena * Forget everything you think you know about thrillers. You’ll be breathless with anticipation, tingling with hope, and numb with dread from beginning to end. * Press Association *

Praise for Sam Lloyd * : * Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent. * Daily Mail * Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time. * Lesley Kara * An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller. * Shari Lapena * Forget everything you think you know about thrillers. You’ll be breathless with anticipation, tingling with hope, and numb with dread from beginning to end. * Press Association * A darkly chilling and original novel . . . a series of twists keeps readers captivated until a shocking climax. * Daily Express * Fiendishly clever. * Sunday Times * Lloyd is terrific on atmosphere... He excels at taking readers to very dark places. * Metro * Absorbing and deftly written . . . Each page promises the literary equivalent of a fresh jab to the solar plexus. * Herald * Shocking . . . Sam Lloyd's heart-racing thriller keeps us guessing until the end. * Woman's Own *

The Bodies by Sam Lloyd has possibly the best hook of any thriller/psychological suspense in the last few years...t’s a blood-chilling, mind-bending, stress-inducing nightmare...I loved it, raced through it, can’t praise it highly enough.’ * Helen Fields, million-copy bestselling author of The Institution and the DI Callanach Thrillers * A twisty, relatable and relentlessly gripping thriller that plays on every parent’s darkest fear. The tension never lets up for a moment. * TM Logan, author of The Daughter and The Dream Home * A suburban Breaking Bad. Expertly plotted. The definition of unputdownable. A fantastic thriller. * Lisa Ballantyne, bestselling author of The Guilty One * A nightmare scenario - and just when you think the nightmare is over, it gets worse. I was so tense I could barely breathe! * Jackie Kabler, author of The Life Sentence * Praise for Sam Lloyd * : * Lloyd is a rare new thriller talent. * Daily Mail * Remarkable. Stunning prose and compulsive reading. It's undoubtedly the best thriller I've read in a long, long time. * Lesley Kara * An intense, atmospheric, and truly original thriller. * Shari Lapena * Forget everything you think you know about thrillers. You’ll be breathless with anticipation, tingling with hope, and numb with dread from beginning to end. * Press Association * A darkly chilling and original novel . . . a series of twists keeps readers captivated until a shocking climax. * Daily Express *

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Sam Lloyd grew up in Hampshire, where he learned his love of storytelling. These days he lives in Surrey with his wife, three young sons and a dog that likes to howl. His first three thrillers, The Memory Wood, The Rising Tide and The People Watcher were published to great critical acclaim.

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