Safe as Houses

Home should be the safest place to be. But when a man forces his way into Lisa’s house, taking her and her young daughter hostage, there is nowhere to hide. Who is he? And what does he want from her? In the coming hours and days, Lisa desperately tries to stay one step ahead, doing the unimaginable to protect her child – and wondering why the only witness to the attack has not raised the alarm…

Reviews of Safe as Houses

* A fast-paced example of suburban noir, in which cosy domesticity is transformed by a potentially brutal home invasion… a lean, stripped-down thriller that hits the ground running and sprints full-tilt to its breathless climax Irish Times * Van der Vlugt propels her double-pronged story along with a spare conciseness that has you flipping pages manically Metro * The author builds a great atmosphere of tension as the truth slowly, horrifyingly, comes into focus Sunday Telegraph on SHADOW SISTER * Hard to put down. Thrilling Cosmopolitan on THE REUNION * A gripping psychological thriller which breathes new life into that old cliche 'unputdownable' Waterstone's Books Quarterly on THE REUNION * Compulsively readable…the characters are fleshed out admirably well in a short space, which makes all the difference with this kind of psychological thriller – you want to find out what happens to them Killing Time Crime