The Last Thing to Burn
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'Outstanding. The best thriller in years' MARTINA COLE
'One of the best thrillers I have read in years' THE OBSERVER
'I couldn't put it down. A visceral nightmare of a book with one of the most evil villains I've come across in a long time. Powerful writing' STEVE CAVANAGH
'Short,…
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In The Last Thing to Burn, Will Dean is very clever in his choice of location and how it’s become a prison for Jane.
Jane lives in a small cottage with her farmer husband surrounded by paddocks. The whole book is set in the cramped confines of the small cottage, where Jane’s husband rules over her and punishes her if she does anything wrong. Jane’s completely cut off from the rest of the world. Her whole world is the cottage.
I love the way Jane slowly realises that she may have a way out, and we join her, heart in…
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