Our Kind of Cruelty

'Simply one of the most disturbing thrillers I've read in years. In short I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line.' GILLIAN FLYNN 'A tense intelligent thriller that kept me gripped and guessing until the last page - and thinking long after that.' ERIN KELLY 'Toxic love, obsession, and the unflinching unravelling of a mind. Scarily plausible, a great read.' ALI LAND 'An addictive dive into dangerous, extreme obsession. A must-read' JULIA CROUCH 'Addictive and disturbing - like watching a slow motion car-crash through splayed fingers' TAMMY COHEN This is a love story. This is a tragedy. This is a book about a break up so bad that when you put the pieces of the love story back together, what you get is MURDER ... *** Mike knows that most of us travel through the world as one half of a whole, desperately searching for that missing person to make us complete. But he and Verity are different. They have found each other and nothing and no one will tear them apart. It doesn't matter that Verity is marrying another man. You see, Verity and Mike play a game together, a secret game they call 'the crave', the aim being to demonstrate what they both know- that Verity needs Mike, and only Mike. Verity's upcoming marriage is the biggest game she and Mike have ever played. And it's for the highest stakes. Except this time in order for Mike and Verity to be together someone has to die ...