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Eye Contact

The book that'll make you never want to look a stranger in the eye

Fergus McNeill author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton

Published:14th Feb '13

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Don't look. Or you'll be next. An incredibly commercial crime debut that will make you think twice before you look a stranger in the eye ...

Don't look. Or you'll be next. A detective novel that will make you think twice before you look a stranger in the eye . . .A crime novel that's perfect for fans of Peter James or Peter Robinson.If you look him in the eye, you're dead.From the outside, Robert Naysmith is a successful businessman, handsome and charming. But for years he's been playing a deadly game. He doesn't choose his victims. Each is selected at random - the first person to make eye contact after he begins 'the game' will not have long to live. Their fate is sealed.When the body of a young woman is found on Severn Beach, Detective Inspector Harland is assigned the case. It's only when he links it to an unsolved murder in Oxford that the police begin to guess at the awful scale of the crimes. But how do you find a killer who strikes without motive?

A chilling game of cat and mouse that should keep you awake long after bedtime. DI Harland is a welcome addition to the growing ranks of British detectives. * Peter Robinson *
Let's welcome Fergus McNeill to the ranks of British Crime fiction innovators; he has found a darker shade of noir * Quintin Jardine *
Creepy, compelling and completely convincing * Erin Kelly, author of THE POISON TREE *
'A gripping first novel' * Irish Independent *

ISBN: 9781444739640

Dimensions: 198mm x 131mm x 22mm

Weight: 260g

368 pages