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Author_Salman Shaheen
believable sci-fi
Black Mirror meets Broadchurch
Category=FH
crime and punishment
English murder mystery
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free will
high-concept thriller
human freedom
human nature
justice
literary thriller
Midsomer Murders meets Th
Midsomer Murders meets The Matrix
mind-bending thriller
morality
murder mystery
murder mystery set in Sussex
mystery
near-future sci-fi
near-future thriller
page-turning thriller
philosophy
prisons
reform of the criminal
sci-fi thriller
science fiction crime and mystery
science versus faith
serial killer thriller
small-town murder mystery
speculative fiction
speculative thriller
state control versus free will
state of nature
stranger arrives in a new town and discovers a body
techno thriller
technological thriller
thinking person's thriller
Thriller
thriller with a unique twist
thriller with an original twist
witness becomes the suspect
Product details
- ISBN 9781803419251
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 28 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Collective Ink
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A thinking reader's thriller with such a shocking twist I was genuinely unprepared for it.' Trezza Azzopardi, Booker-shortlisted author of The Hiding Place -
After learning of his wife's affair with his best friend and business partner, divorced and unemployed MindTech entrepreneur Dr Harry Coulson arrives in the idyllic English town of Freebourne, looking to start a new life. But any hopes of quietly picking up the pieces of his broken world are shattered when he steps off the train to discover the body of a young woman lying in the snow. It's almost as if she'd been left there for him to find. Harry does everything he can to help. But as a stranger arriving on the night Freebourne witnesses its first murder in over a century, he not only becomes a suspect in the woman's killing but finds himself caught in a deadly game between science, faith, and free will - in a secret far darker and more terrifying than anything he could have imagined.
Salman Shaheen is a British politician, journalist and novelist. He has written for the Guardian, New Statesman, Huffington Post, New Internationalist and Times of India and he is a regular commentator on politics and economics on TV and radio. Salman launched the UK s first-ever policy to transform wasteland into places for urban kids in deprived areas to grow food and learn about sustainability and biodiversity. Born in Norwich in 1984, Salman studied Social & Political Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge and the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia. He now lives in Brentford, West London.
