Mirrorland: the dark and twisty fiction debut from 2022's new voice in psychological suspense

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Coarse and salty language colors dialogue and internal thoughts, potentially distracting and perhaps offensive to some readers because of its frequency. Then back to the harbor, its bobbing round buoys and long pontoons and white sailboats with rattling masts.

Let me be clear, this is not magical realism – or at least it isn’t in my mind – what this is about is escapism and childhood imagination working overtime to block things out (although clowns? But then something happens that tears them apart and sends Cat across the Atlantic Ocean to America. Instead, he’s looking out at the firth, his mouth open and teeth bared in a wail of despair and horrified grief that I can almost hear. By the time we got to that big reveal, it was so out of left field that we had to have a character actively sit down and explain it, in the ultimate telling versus showing strategy. DARK AND DEVIOUS' Stephen King 'UTTERLY ENGROSSING' Daily Mail 'TWISTY AND RICHLY ATMOSPHERIC' Ruth Ware 'TIGHTLY PLOTTED AND UTTERLY GRIPPING' Sarah Pinborough 'A HAUNTING THRILLER' Women's Weekly 'TOTALLY ABSORBING' T.On the morning of April the third, Leith resident Ellice MacAuley, thirty-one, sailed from this yacht club in Granton Harbour on the Firth of Forth, and has not been seen or heard from since. Although a somewhat unreliable protagonist, I became utterly drawn into Cat’s world – and into the world of Mirrorland – very quickly.

Having had a trusted blogger read and love Mirrorland, I had pretty high expectations going in, expectations that it absolutely knockdown out of the park.

Over the past seventy-two hours, the temperature of the firth has been no more than seven degrees Celsius. These days, Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband, Ross.

Beautifully written and told with a watchmaker's precision" (Stephen King), Mirrorland is a thrilling psychological suspense novel about twin sisters, the man they both love, the house that has always haunted them, and the childhood stories they can't leave behind. Because it's all coming back to Cat now: all the things she has buried, all the secrets she's been running from. The girls do not know who their father is – they are told that their mother destroyed her marriage, taking the twins with her to Edinburgh.I wasn't even on the wrought-iron balcony of my California condo, looking out at the Pacific and drinking zinfandel and pretending I was exactly where I've always wanted to be.