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Erin Kelly
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Erin Kelly was born in London in 1976 and studied English at Warwick University. She has worked as a freelance journalist for ten years, specialising in women, health, sex and lifestyle. She writes regularly for the Daily Mail, Psychologies, Red and Look and has also written for The Sunday Times, Elle, Marie Claire, Glamour, Grazia, the Express and the Mirror. For film, theatre and TV enquiries, please contact Georgina Lewis at United Agents. Forthcoming publication: THE SICK ROSE - HODDER & STOUGHTON - JUNE 2011 'You kept my secret. I know yours now. That makes us even.' Paul has been led into a life of crime by his schoolyard protector, Daniel - but one night what started as petty theft escalates fatally. Now, at nineteen, Paul must bear witness against his friend to avoid imprisonment. Louisa has her own dark secrets. Having fled from them many years ago she now spends her days steeped in history, renovating the grounds of a crumbling Elizabethan mansion. But the her fragile peace is shattered when she meets Paul; he's the image of the one person she never thought she'd see again. A relationship develops between them, and Louisa starts to believe she can experience the happiness she had given up on; but it soon becomes apparent that neither of them can outrun their violent past . . . "As dark as any of the Scandinavian noir novels ... This sick rose has got the grip of bindweed." Independent “More creepy crime with plenty of psychological insight from rising star Erin Kelly.” **** Daily Mirror “A compelling second novel from masterful storyteller Erin Kell.”' “Kelly's first novel, The Poison Tree, earned her comparisons with Ruth Rendell and on the evidence of this second psychologically complex thriller, the accolade is entirely deserved. Like Rendell, Kelly is an expert in suburban macabre, relising in the kind of domestic scenes we all recognise but giving them a satisfyingly chilly twist.” “This claustrophobic psychological thriller is the second novel from the author of the brilliant The Poison Tree. Just as good as her debut, it marks Kelly out as a formidable talent.” Bella “Thumbs up to... this leave-the-light-on thriller.” Look “Erin Kelly manages the complicated strands of her plot with great skill, mixes action, emotion and history in exactly the right proportion and keeps up the suspense to the last page. It's unusual for a second novel to be even better than the first but Kelly has pulled off that difficult trick.” Literary Review “Erin Kelly’s first thriller, The Poison Tree, was widely praised, with some reviewers comparing her work to Daphne du Maurier. Her second, The Sick Rose, is nearer in sprit to Ruth Rendell’s work… It’s an elaborate narrative structure, but Kelly manages it with panache…this is an enormously readable novel and there is no denying Erin Kelly’s talent. She’s an author to watch.” Spectator “It is hard to find a more impeccably English writer than Erin Kelly, whose debut The Poison Tree, marked her as a name to watch in British fiction... In trademark style the [The Sick Rose] flits between the 'then' and the 'now', playing with the magic and poison of memories, until the present intervenes with brutal and tragic consequences.” Times “Kelly writes perceptively and chillingly about the long shadows cast by tragic mistakes... she shows considerable promise.” Daily Telegraph “A compelling suspense novel from crime fiction's freshest voice.” Red “A tantalising novel that grips the gut until the breathtaking conclusion.” Daily Record “A tense and twisting novel of dark secrets and dangerous desires.” Grazia “A really engrossing and suspenseful novel that gripped me throughout.” Crime and Publishing "After the success of The Poison Tree, Erin Kelly has conjured up another intriguing novel that will draw you in from the start" Star “Gripping and beautifully written... I can't recommend this book highly enough. I read the last section in one long burst, unaware of my surroundings, and emerged as though from a trance. I think I shall have to read it again.” Shots Magazine Praise for THE POISON TREE: "It's a gripping psychological thrill...and I expect the author to go far." "A wonderfully tense and foreboding thriller that is at the same time a clever, considered study of desire and a good old-fashioned page-turner" "Kelly deftly weaves past and present in her highly satisfying debut novel of psychological suspense ... the tension never wanes, and the ensuing horror comes as a major shock. The surprises don’t end until the last page of this twisted tale with its wonderfully evocative London atmosphere." "A psychological thriller that will give you chills" Red "A really great read" "Tense to the end" "This taut psychological thriller from new author Erin Kelly has unexpected twists and turns until the very last page." *****(Book of the Week)
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The Poison Tree 
The Sick Rose
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| THE POISON TREE 2010 Hodder & Stoughton | THE POISON TREE, Erin Kelly's debut novel, is set in the sweltering summer of 1997. Karen, a straight-laced, straight-A university student, meets the impossibly glamorous Biba, a bohemian orphan who lives in a crumbling old mansion in Highgate with her enigmatic brother Rex. She is soon drawn into their world – but from the present-day passages, we know that something terrible will happen. We just don’t know who will end up dead.. |
