Patrick Redmond est un auteur anglais de thrillers psychologiques, dont les thèmes typiques incluent la folie, les secrets et la mort. Ses œuvres plongent dans les recoins sombres de la psyché humaine, explorant les frontières entre la raison et la démence. Redmond construit magistralement le suspense, révélant progressivement des vérités cachées qui mènent souvent à des dénouements tragiques. Son style est incisif et troublant, entraînant les lecteurs dans un tourbillon de secrets dangereux et une fatalité inévitable.
Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which escalate with increasingly unnatural and sinister results.
Ronnie Sidney is perfect, his mother's little ray of sunshine. He can do no wrong, although sometimes he wants to, especially to people who look down on him and his mother, and their drab existence. And if bad things should happen to them - why, it's nothing to do with him. He's a good boy. Everybody says so.Susan Ramsey was once perfect too, cherished by her parents, a popular girl at school. A nice girl in a nice home. Then her dad died and her mum remarried. The way her stepfather cherished her wasn't very nice at all.So then they meet, Ronnie and Susan, become teenage sweethearts. If the world wasn't so wrong they'd be the perfect couple. But Ronnie can set that right. He's a good boy. Everybody says so.
They were the perfect family. He was the perfect stranger. They should never have let him in . . . A brilliantly assured psychological thriller from the international bestselling author of The Wishing Game.
Patrick Redmond is an internationally bestselling author of taut and terrifying psychological thrillers.
A mesmerising novel of psychological suspense from the bestselling author of THE WISHING GAME