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- ISBN 9781068710346
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Hawkwood Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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An addictive, hard-hitting YA thriller filled with poisonous twists, 'Hidden Toxins' will keep you hooked. Perfect for fans of, 'One of us is lying' and 'A good girl's guide to murder'.
Six audacious teenagers. Far too many secrets. A corrupt politician. Stalking... Murder... One thing's for sure - Cedar and Sorrel are in way too deep.
Risk-taker, Cedar, and his sarcastic, introverted, female friend, Sorrel have real reasons to trust each other. Cedar's excluded from school, after being accused of hitting a homophobic bully. Now he's stuck with his dad, doing a landscaping job for a politician called Charles Fenwick. Cedar witnesses a guy being viciously assaulted by Fenwick. The victim claims Fenwick and his mates are psychopaths and anyone who works for them ends up linked to their corruption. There's no way Cedar's letting his dad get dragged into anything suspect. Cedar's gut feeling is on high alert. Needing help, he tries to track down the one person Sorrel can't cope with seeing, the enigmatic girl, Eyam, who days before, turned up at their school asking questions about a governor and his 'criminal associates'. Why has Eyam disappeared? Sorrel is having panic attacks, convinced that Eyam has cut off contact because she knows Sorrel has a major crush on her. Cedar is in enough trouble and Sorrel is determined to stop him diving into any more danger. Not everyone is allowed to live.
Helen Larder graduated with Distinction from the M.A. novel writing course at MMU. Diva Press published her adult novel, Treasure and her YA novel, Anarchy was published by Onlywomen press. She was commissioned by Pavilion Press to write a book for health care and education professionals, called, Understanding Autism; Postcards from Aspie World, (written with her daughter, who has autism) and with Manchester and Salford Universities. Mslexia magazine has published three of her pieces of writing. Her script, 'Around Again', won a competition and three of her short stories have been included in anthologies.
She is part of the LGBT+ community and shares her world with her civil partner and their daughter.
