THE POISON TREE by Erin Kelly, just out in paperback from Penguin Books at the end of January, marks the debut of a gripping and sophisticated new voice that is sure to appeal to readers of psychological suspense and fans of Kate Atkinson, Donna Tartt, and Barbara Vine.  Stephen King calls THE POISON TREE by Erin Kelly, “A terrific suspense debut, reminiscent of another British woman’s auspicious bow: Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca. This one gets the writer’s ultimate bit of praise: I wish I had written it.”

In mid-ninetiesLondon, straight-A student Karen has just finished her final year at university. The day she meets the exotic free spirit Biba in the windowless corridors of herLondoncollege, everything changes. A studious adolescence is over, and life finally blossoms as Biba leads Karen into a world of bohemian excess. That sweltering summer, Karen quickly settles in at Biba’s dilapidated mansion on the edge of Queen’s Wood where raucous parties, drugs and alcohol flow day and night, and where Karen begins a passionate but complicated dance with Biba’s protective, brooding older brother, Rex. 

But Biba and Rex’s fraught family history—one of abandonment, suicide and crippling guilt—is the ghost that haunts their laid-back lifestyle. Karen naively thinks her summer of abandon will last forever, but everything is about to end in death.

Flash forward ten years. Rex is picked up from prison by Karen and 9-year-old Alice. It is up to Karen  to protect her newly reunited family from the threats and secrets, known and unknown, that could destroy the life she took a decade to create. 

THE POISON TREE alternates between the delicate present-day and the lingering past, both colored by Karen’s nostalgia and the paranoia that—for very good reason—pervades her life. THE POISON TREE is an atmospheric psychological thriller that builds to a truly shocking climax readers will not see coming.  Erin Kelly’s next novel THE DARK ROSE comes out simultaneously and is the perfect follow-up to her debut.

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Prize:	The Poison Tree
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Contest start date:	January 31, 2012
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