The Last House: an intense psychological thriller of locked doors and family secrets

Synopsis

Social worker Kit Goddard is convinced that Sandbeach Child Services have let an injured seventeen-year-old boy down, just like they'd done to her brother ten years earlier. Since the referral came in, it had been passed between departments, her own manager Georgia and colleague Tim brushing it off as a low risk, low priority case. But Kit can't shake the feeling that something isn't quite right.Scanning the referral, she notices that the house seventeen-year-old Dylan Meredith lives in with his 'weird' mother had been described as decrepit. The anonymous caller said he was injured, frightened and afraid to tell the truth. As Kit begins to look deeper into the history of the family, she learns that Dylan's grandmother had been an inpatient at Penlan psychiatric hospital and had died there in 2012. But as her colleague Tim had stressed, this was not a case for psychiatric services. In a bid to trace the anonymous caller for more information, Kit sets off to the small coastal town of Rock. Only to be confronted with the sense of strangeness that surrounds the Meredith family and the rumours that have troubled this small community for years. An intense psychological thriller, The Last House shows that the darkest secrets are hidden within the walls. But no matter how big you build them the truth will always find a way of breaking out. (P) 2022 Quercus Editions Limited

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781529404692

Related ISBNs:

9781529404715

Publisher:

Quercus

Date of Addition:

11/11/22

Copyrighted By:

R. G. Adams

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Narrated By:

Caroline Sheen

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers, Social Studies

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.