The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean- Suspense Thriller

 A stunning read, a difficult read at times but one to remember. Jane is held captive

in a remote farmhouse. She has four things that are her own- a photograph, an

identity card (that shows that Jane isn't her real name), a book and her sister's

letters. Both of them came over to England with the promise of a better life and

enough wages that they would be able to send some home. It cost them each

eighteen thousand pounds to come over- which must be paid back to the

traffickers who manhandled them over here. They were promised to be working

in a shop (they’re not), they were “guaranteed” to be together and they’re not.

Jane’s sister is allowed to write but Jane can't write back. Lenn has very strict

rules. If she kills him her sister will be deported, the same if she escapes. His

friend Frank at the next farm would see to it so she is trapped where she has

been for the last five years. This isn’t an easy read- it tells of abuse and rape

and oh such a horrible existance. Yes its fiction but modern day slavery is

very much a thing and maybe books like this will highlight the issues even

more. This is about survival and being mentally strong in the very worst

of conditions. Brilliantly written and described, a heartfelt visceral read.

Certainly one I won’t forget. 5*

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INTRODUCING HODDER & STOUGHTON’S lead THRILLER OF 2021 ...

WILL DEAN grew up in the East Midlands and had lived in nine different villages 

before the age of eighteen. After studying Law at the LSE and working in London, 

he settled in rural Sweden where he built a house in a boggy clearing at the centre of

 a vast elk forest, and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes.

 His debut novel, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball’s Book Club, shortlisted 

for the Guardian Not the Booker prize and named a Daily Telegraph Book of the 

Year. The second Tuva Moodyson mystery, Red Snow, was published in January 

2019 and won Best Independent Voice at the Amazon Publishing Readers’ Awards,

 2019. The Last Thing to Burn is his first standalone novel and his first book with

 Hodder.

‘I lived every second with the characters. A masterpiece’ JANE CASEY

‘Misery meets Room . . . a triumph’ MARIAN KEYES

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‘Misery meets Room – a triumph’ MARIAN KEYES

‘Ratchets up the tension to the point where

I had to check my pulse’ LIZ NUGENT

‘I lived every second with the characters.

A masterpiece’ JANE CASEY

‘An addictive and insightful thriller’

MAXINE MEI-FUNG CHUNG