To the Sea

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Author
Nikki Crutchley
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Fiction
Released
01 December, 2021
ISBN
9781460760437

To the Sea

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Synopsis

Keep a secret. Tell a lie. Protect the family. At all costs.

A compulsively readable suspense thriller from Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, which will keep you guessing and reading up until late into the night.

Iluka has been the only home that 18-year-old Ana has ever known. The beautiful wild pine plantation overlooking the Pacific Ocean where her grandfather builds furniture, her aunt runs an artists' retreat and her uncle tends the land, is paradise, a private idyll safe from the outside world.

But the place holds a violent secret and when a stranger arrives, Ana will need to make a choice: to protect everything - and everyone - she holds dear or tell the truth and destroy it all.

An atmospheric, suspenseful, dark and twisty thriller in the tradition of Daphne du Maurier, Paula Hawkins, Anna Downes and JP Pomare.

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Chilling and Suspenseful: Read an Extract from To the Sea by Nikki Crutchley

Review | Extract

9 December 2021

Chilling and Suspenseful: Read an Extract from To the Sea by Nikki Crutchley

    A Tense, Atmospheric Thriller: Read Our Review of To the Sea by Nikki Crutchley

    Review | Our Review

    6 December 2021

    A Tense, Atmospheric Thriller: Read Our Review of To the Sea by Nikki Crutchley

      Nikki Crutchley
      About the author

      Nikki Crutchley

      Nikki Crutchley has self-published three police procedurals set in NZ. She has been a finalist in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for her first two books. She has been published in Flash Frontier, Mayhem Literary Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine and in Fresh Ink anthology (published by Cloud Ink Press). She was long-listed and regional winner for her story New Beginnings at National Flash Fiction Day in 2016, and at the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day she had two stories short-listed and was regional winner. 

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