Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290817 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 277 pages

Literary Review
'Jones has fashioned her most complex, involving heroine yet.'

Elle
'Exquisitely written yet utterly chilling, this will keep you
gripped from start to finish: a potential book-group classic.'

Easy Living
'An intriguing tale...this is a book that you won't be able to put
down.'

Customer Reviews

Confusing and compelling
I read this over a weekend and it was one of those books I longed to have more time to go back to. Having read the blurb I was warned that things are not what they seem (this was a mistake as I think it lessened the impact of the ending) so, like other readers here, I forced myself to slow down and concentrate. The prose flows beautifully, with the occasional phrase that jumps out at you making you realise what a powerful writer Susanna Jones is. If you like a book which lingers on in the memory for days after its finished, this is for you. I can't wait for my husband to read it so we can discuss it! Unsettling and shocking, this is highly recommended.

A book that stays with you
What a fantastic book! Would make a brilliant book-group read or present - it is literally impossible to put down (stayed up til 4am finishing it). As with Jones' other books, the story is incredibly gripping. Its so beautifully written I felt I should slow down and appreciate the quality of the writing - but the story is so good I had trouble stopping myself from whizzing through it! Would love to see one of her books adapted for TV or film - they're incredibly visual and atmospheric. I can't stop thinking about some of the scenes in this book - its a book that really stays with you...

Still Waters
I love the quality of Jones's prose - as in her two previous works, it's spare, resonant and, at times, troublingly beautiful. An almost palpable sense of the Yorkshire landscape permeates the story: the otherworldly moors, the small town claustrophobia, not to mention the vast reservoir at the centre of the heroine's hometown, a body of water which spreads into a brooding centre for the plot itself. It's a fitting metaphor for this unconventional mystery novel - still waters running deep. I'm not a crime/mystery reader, and yet I found myself intrigued and moved by Isabel's struggle to lay old ghosts to rest.