'A new novel from Helen Fitzgerald is always a major event ... magnificent' Mark Billingham
'Outrageous, hilarious and dark as hell - this is Helen FitzGerald on absolute top form' Doug Johnstone
'[Lou] is irresistible and very funny ... The set-up is fascinating, the narrative is both fast-moving and convincing' Literary Review
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They're the housemates from Hell...
When her disastrous Australian love affair ends, Lou O'Dowd heads to Edinburgh for a fresh start, moving in with her cousin, and preparing for the only job she can find ... working at a halfway house for very high-risk offenders.
Two killers, a celebrity paedophile and a paranoid coke dealer - all out on parole and all sharing their outwardly elegant Edinburgh townhouse with rookie night-worker Lou...
And instead of finding some meaning and purpose to her life, she finds herself trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse where she stands to lose everything - including her life.
Slick, darkly funny and nerve-janglingly tense, Halfway House is both a breathtaking thriller and an unapologetic reminder never to corner a desperate woman...
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'Tense, claustrophobic and laugh-out-loud funny ... an amazingly talented writer' Michael Wood
'A genius combination of horror, humour and humanity' B M Carroll
Praise for Helen FitzGerald
**Shortlisted for Theakston Crime Novel of the Year**
'Sharp, shocking and savagely funny' Chris Whitaker
'Dark, dark, deliciously dark' Amanda Jennings
'Wickedly funny, breath-stealingly tense and utterly chilling' Miranda Dickinson
'The main character is one of the most extraordinary you'll meet between the pages of a book' Ian Rankin
'Sublime' Guardian
'A dark, comic masterpiece' Mark Edwards
'Urgent, angry, absolutely terrifying' Erin Kelly
'Tantalisingly powerful' The Times
'The classic thriller gets a hell of a twist' Heat
'FitzGerald writes like a more focused Irvine Welsh or a less misogynist Philip Roth' Daily Telegraph
'Domestic life is rarely served up quite so dark as this' Sun



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