Novelists Chase One Ending Under Deadly Pressure
Novelists trapped with one deadly deadline give this thriller a clever literary edge. Evelyn Clarke uses ambition, secrets and pressure to turn the bookish setting into something tense, suspicious and far more dangerous than decorative. The pressure keeps tightening neatly.
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Novelists Chase One Ending Under Deadly Pressure
Novelists trapped with one deadly deadline give this thriller a clever literary edge. Evelyn Clarke uses ambition, secrets and pressure to turn the bookish setting into something tense, suspicious and far more dangerous than decorative. The pressure keeps tightening neatly.
- Book Synopsis
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One private island.
Seventy-two hours to write the ending that will change their lives.
'This is a house of novelists, not murderers. You dream up crimes. You don't commit them.'
'But a writer has. And so, who better than a writer to catch them?'
World famous author Arthur Fletch is dead. His final novel, the most anticipated book in history, remains unfinished. But the ending won't write itself. Fletch's publisher, Merriweather Press, has invited six authors to Fletch's private island in Scotland. Authors whose books have never had the big marketing budgets or publicity opportunities. In other words, midlist. And they're about to be presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Whoever writes a worthy ending will receive one million dollars, and a further one million dollars for a new three-book contract. They have just seventy-two hours, with no access to the outside world, just a typewriter and a blank page. All they have to do is write… Starting is often the hardest part. But getting to the end could be murder.
Ideal for readers who:
- Seek out bookish locked-room thrillers where authors are placed under impossible pressure.
- Prefer private-island mysteries where ambition, money and storytelling turn toxic.
- Are intrigued by the idea of finishing a dead writer’s final masterpiece.
- Appreciate clever suspense that makes publishing drama part of the trap.
- About The Author
- It was a dark and stormy night (well, it was actually an unusually warm evening in Edinburgh, Scotland) when Number One Sunday Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, known for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, proposed an absurd idea to longtime friend and screenwriter Cat Clarke: that they should write a book together. Victoria had made quite a name for herself, but had sworn she'd never co-write a novel.While Cat, following a tumultuous career as an editor and the author of several YA novels, including Girlhood and Entangled, had fled the publishing industry to work in the even more tumultuous film industry, swearing she'd never return to books.And yet, fate - and an irresistible idea - made liars of them both.That night, Evelyn Clarke was born.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780008739270
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HQ, (09 April 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 352
- Weight
- 440 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 30 mm
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