The Last Thing to Burn: Gripping and unforgettable
By Will Dean

Outstanding. The best thriller in years'and MARTINA COLE'One of the best thrillers I have read in years'and 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'and STEVE CAVANAGH'Short, sharp shocker'and THE TIMES'an early contender for one of the best books of the year'and S MAGAZINEHe is her husband. She is his captive.Her husband calls her Jane. That is not her name.She lives in a small farm cottage, surrounded by vast, open fields. Everywhere she looks, there is space. But she is trapped. No one knows how she got to the UK: no one knows she is there. Visitors rarely come to the farm; if they do, she is never seen.Her husband records her every movement during the day. If he doesn't like what he sees, she is punished.For a long time, escape seemed impossible. But now, something has changed. She has a reason to live and a reason to fight. Now, she is watching him, and waiting . . .'A true nail-biter'and THE GUARDIAN'Ratchets up the tension to the point where I had to check my pulse'and LIZ NUGENT'Heart-stoppingly suspenseful, a masterclass in tension'and ERIN KELLY'An unbearably tense read, with incredible writing'and RAGNAR JONASSON'I could not stop reading this! Brilliantly done'and DENISE MINA'Sensational. Claustrophobic, compulsive, and almost unbearably tense it's a heart-in-mouth read that's packed with suspense. Readers will be saying 'just one more page' all the way from the gripping beginning to the heart-stopping end'and C.L. TAYLOR'Seriously nail-biting stuff! I raced through it, my heart in my mouth'and EMMA CURTIS'Tremendously powerful and fantastically written, heart-stopping from page one. Expect to see it on all the award lists'and SARAH HILARY