'Somebody!' I half-sob and then more quietly 'Please.' The words seem absorbed by the
afternoon heat lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath the silence descends again. I know
then that I'm not going anywhere...Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from
whom but we do know he's abandoned his battered blood-stained car in the middle of an
isolated part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the
police he takes to the parched fields and country lanes but his leg is caught in a vicious
animal trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood he is freed and taken in by two
women - daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn blighted
vineyard and the brooding lake. And it's then that Sean's problems really start... This
nail-shredder of a thriller - like the fiction of Nicci French or Gillian Flynn - holds you
from the beginning tightening its grip as the story unfurls and shocks you with its final
twist.
