When Rob and Anna pay to travel on Kim and Owen’s yacht, they expect their sailing trip in the Caribbean to be relaxing and fun. However, it turns out not to be the idyllic trip they’d expected, but something much darker. Anna is quite uptight, she resents her boyfriend Rob for wanting to travel with Kim and Owen on their yacht and finds it difficult to take to Kim. She isn’t sure what to make of Owen, but he and Kim come across as a devoted couple. It soon transpires that Owen never sleeps and for some reason the only sharp knife on the ship is the one Kim keeps zipped into her money-belt.

 

Jane Lythell worked as a television producer and commissioning editor before becoming Deputy Director of the BFI and Chief Executive of BAFTA. She is the author of The Lie of You.

 

"Fascinating and clever... The author's real skill is her ability to invent memorable original characters." —Daily Mail

"A dark, mesmerising story where the underlying tension builds slowly." —Novelicious

"Lythell immerses readers in a taut, atmospheric thrill ride from which no one emerges unscathed." --Publishers Weekly, 6/6/2016

'Lythell's strength is in her descriptions of the story's idyllic backdrop, the deserted islands and bustling ports. She's also good at conjuring up a beguiling sense of the lazy, hazy days of a Caribbean cruise' Irish Times.