THE HIT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Two brilliant women--a serial killer and her therapist--play
"a brilliant game of cat and mouse" in this twisty psychological thriller for fans of Ruth Ware
and Alex Michaelides ( The Times ) It all started with a telephone call. It was the first time
I heard Ida's voice just a faint whisper as though she were calling from beyond the grave.
Renowned therapist Clarissa Virtanen is not afraid to look at the darkest side of humanity.
Haunted by the death of a young patient she will do whatever it takes to save the most
vulnerable. But when Ida - angry damaged and seemingly suicidal - walks into her office
Clarissa may have met her match. For Ida has secrets. Murderous secrets which mark her like a
bloodstain. Secrets which drive her to kill. And kill again. Somehow Clarissa must find the
key to unlock her past. So she makes a bargain with Ida - six months to try and stop her taking
her own life. But what if she has entered a game more deadly and more evil than she could
ever imagine? Don't miss this dark and twisty psychological thriller featuring a face-off
between 2 women that's overlain with a sense of poignancy about damaged lives the power of the
imagination to trick-and protect-us and the passage of time.
