Description
| Product ID: | 9781529024326 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Running Scared |
| Authors: | Author: Mandasue Heller |
| Page Count: | 416 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime and mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense, Lancashire |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Running Scared is a gritty urban thriller set in Manchester from bestselling author Mandasue Heller. <p><b>Set in urban Manchester, <i>Running Scared</i> is a nerve-shredding thriller by bestselling author Mandasue Heller.</b><br><br>When teenager Alexis ‘Lexi’ James falls out with her best mate Nicole over ‘bad boy’ Ryan King, it’s just the beginning of a chain of events that go from bad to worse to deadly.<br><br>Returning home one night to her high-rise flat, she is faced by a terrifying scene that changes her life forever – and matters are made worse when she is put into care in another town.<br><br>Years later, Lexi has left school and is back in Manchester. A chance meeting with Nicole and her so-called ‘other half’ Ryan ends in disaster, and she vows never to see them again.<br><br>Then, one night, Lexi is saved from a vicious attack by a charming stranger. He takes her home and their acquaintance blossoms into something much deeper.<br><br>When her new man receives a call in the middle of the night and leaves in a hurry, she is horrified when he returns with someone she never thought she would see again.<br><br>It soon becomes obvious that Lexi doesn’t know her new lover as well as she thought, and she is forced to make a decision that will have devastating results . . .<br><br><b>Praise for Mandasue Heller:<br><br>'Thoroughly gripping' – <i>The Guardian</i><br><br>'Alarming and beguiling . . . curiously exhilarating' – <i>The Scotsman</i><br><br>'One of the bad girls of gritty crime' – <i>Daily Mirror</i></b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-01-19 |
