The LLB First Novel Winner is…
Well this has just been added to my TBR list! Congratulations to Ruth and I look forward to seeing the finished product.
Susan Hill’s blog :: LONG BARN BOOKS FIRST NOVEL COMPETITION WINNER
I am delighted to announce THE LONG BARN BOOKSFIRST NOVEL COMPETITION WINNER 2007
The winning first novel, to be published in 2008 by Long Barn Books is
TWISTED WING by RUTH NEWMAN
Ruth Newman lives in Cambridge where she works as a Web editor for the University Business School. She is 32.
TWISTED WING is a brilliant dark psychological thriller set in Cambridge.
It will be published by Simon and Schuster in Pocket Books, their mass market paperback imprint in 2009.
Kate Lyall Grant, paperback editor of Simon and Schuster says of TWISTED WING.
We are absolutely delighted to be publishing this sharply-plotted psychological thriller on the Pocket paperback list. Gripping and chilling in equal measure, the unexpected twists and turns in Ruth Newman’s compelling debut kept me guessing until the very last page. This author is a real find.
Ruth Newman has been snapped up immediately by agent Vivien Green at Sheil Land Associates who says
I’m completely knocked out by TWISTED WING. It’s remarkable that it’s a first novel.
It’s so clever with such strong characterization. I was completely spellbound until the end. It’s wonderful to have a new female crime writer of this calibre.
TWISTED WING
The Claustrophobic environment of Ariel College, Cambridge has become the hunting ground of a serial killer.
For the students, a siege mentality has developed following weeks of media interest in “the Cambridge Butcher”. College life has become not about surviving their exams, but about surviving full stop.
Forensic psychiatrist Matthew Denison is sure that his traumatised patient, student Olivia Corscadden, has the killer’s identity locked up in her memory. That within the little clique she belonged to lurks someone with a grudge. Someone who thought: ‘what’s a little decapitation between friends?’ And that someone is just getting started…
