Time is a Killer: From the bestselling author of After the Crash

It is summer 1989 and fifteen-year-old Clotilde is on holiday with her parents in Corsica. On a twisty mountain road, their car comes off at a curve and plunges into a ravine. Only Clotilde survives.Twenty-seven years later, she returns to Corsica with her husband and their sulky teenage daughter. Clotilde wants the trip to do two things – to help exorcise her past, and to build a bridge between her and her daughter. But in the very place where she spent that summer all those years ago, she receives a letter. From her mother. As if she were still alive.As fragments of memory come back, Clotilde begins to question the past. And yet it all seems impossible – she saw the corpses of her mother, her father, her brother. She has lived with their ghosts. But then who sent this letter – and why?

Reviews of Time is a Killer: From the bestselling author of After the Crash

combines an extraordinarily inventive plot with characters haunted by long-ago events – and demonstrates why he has such a hold on readers. * SUNDAY TIMES * 27 years after a horrendous crash that killed her parents and brother, Clotilde returns to Corsica with her own family – where she receives a letter from mother mother, as it she were still alive today. * GRAZIA *