One of the FamilyOne of the family is dead. One of the family is missing. And one of the family might just be the killer The outstanding new psychological thriller from the 5 million copy bestselling author of Here to Stay and The Magpies ***** Patrick couldnt believe his luck when Holly fell for him. Shes wickedly funny, beautiful, and with an intimidatingly successful father, Charles. So when she invites him to Charles mansion for a New Years break in Scotland, all

living Saints visit the towns to exact the Saviours' tithe from all those coming of age - a tithe often paid in blood

But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers

She's also a holy icon to a race of alien warriors who track her every move

'' Punctuating the story are excerpts from a monograph on the peculiar traits of cork trees

so it was back to old-fashioned legwork

only eleven months after the opening of Look Back in Anger

Pearson's determination to cling onto the 'old bigoted way of thinking' begins to endanger her job

an apocalyptic book

He's disarmed a machete-wielding psychopath and broken devastating news of a loved one's death more times than he can remember

who vanished long ago

but his father has been called away to Scotland to attend to a family emergency

along with his sister Pearl