Beautiful Animals
Lawrence Osborne
14 €
Coup de coeur
(Mystery/Crime), by Linda
Osborne is one of my favourite literary suspense writers and Beautiful Animals is a sinister read in which two rich young women on holiday on the Greek island of Hydra decide to help a Syrian refugee who has washed up on a local beach. That one of the women is basically an amoral sociopath hell-bent on manipulating everyone around her means that things spiral out of control pretty quickly. Osborne writes beautifully and excels at building menace and creating thorny moral dilemmas. Sun-bleached and dark at the same time, you'll burn through it.
The best intentions can be deadly
During a white-hot summer on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra, two girls fall into one another’s lives to devastating effect.
When Samantha, a young, impressionable American, meets Naomi, a Brit with a taste for danger, their relationship quickly takes on a special intensity. Amid the sun, sea and high society of island life, their imaginations are sparked when one day they find a young Arab man, Faoud, washed up on shore, a casualty of the crisis raging across the Aegean. But when their seemingly simple plan to help the stranger goes wrong, all must face the horrific consequences they have set in motion.
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Jun 2018
Dimensions: 198 x 145 x 20 mm
ISBN: 9781784700379
