The Last Thing to Burn: Longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and shortlisted for the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year

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But this is the kind of read you just cannot stop reading because the writing is really calm and intense in a way that wouldn't leave you in peace unless you know what happens in the end.

The Last Thing to Burn: Will Dean’s bleak thriller billed as The Last Thing to Burn: Will Dean’s bleak thriller billed as

Moving back and forth between the present, where their mother has died in prison, and the past, Girl A is harrowing, gripping and also, somehow, life-affirming – an incredible achievement for a first novel. Towards the end of the novel there’s a comment by a character about the choice to live in small communities because anomalies are noticed, or people step in. I could almost have imagined chapters from his point of view, confused as to why his Jane can’t see how good he is to her. An illegal migrant hobbles across fields in a bid to escape her captor in Will Dean’s The Last Thing to Burn. I was ultimately a little confused about whether he named her after his mother (whom he worshipped, though a psychologist might say ‘hated’) or after a previous wife.Author Will Dean takes great care in giving us a stark and seemingly realistic view of a woman held captive.

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I do wish Dean had opted to provide a deeper look at the backstories of the characters, since I never shook the desire to know more about Thanh and her captor before he bought her. I wish upon him a heart attack and a bad fall, perhaps into the dike, drowning, the quad on top, and a lightning strike.Intense, dark, and utterly gripping The Last Thing to Burn is a breathtaking thriller from an author to watch. This is a thoroughly addictive read and one that, had I had the time, would happily have devoured in one sitting, as I found myself needing to know what fate was set to befall ‘Jane’, and which direction the story would take. This book is dark and difficult and some scenes were so intense that I almost couldn't watch what was gonna happen next! She creates a space for herself where Lenn cannot go, where she can talk to her sister Kim-Ly who escaped Vietnam with her and whom she believes to be working in a nail salon in Manchester. This claustrophobic and atmospheric storytelling has Vietnamese Thanh Dao and her sister, Kym-Ly, arrive in the UK only to find they have been conned.

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I should mention I struggled initially with this because I thought I was reading a different type of book and was waiting for it to become just that. While this may be a book readers can only read one time, it's a book that any suspense/thriller fan MUST read, it's that good!Dean's writing is lean and powerful, conveying the claustrophobic atmosphere of the small house so well. However, as so many subjugators do, he would sometimes show a spot of kindness and Jane would be grateful and subdued. However, when she becomes pregnant and a second woman is imprisoned on the farm, she starts thinking about what they can do to survive. In this chilling novel from bestselling author John Marrs, a young couple’s house hides terrible secrets—and not all of them are confined to the past. At first she hates the seed that is growing inside her but over time she grows to love her unborn baby and wants nothing more than to keep the baby safe.