Son of Destruction

Hardcover | 31 July 2014

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When Lucy Cartaret dies, her journalist son Dan returns to her hometown, Fort Jude, Florida, in search of his real father and claiming to be investigating the mysterious deaths of three elderly women. Spontaneous human combustion, experts say. But why? Surely it's more than coincidence - and what links these deaths to Dan's mother? It soon becomes clear that something terrible happened during his mother's last year in town, thirty years before. But the social elite of Fort Jude remain tight-lipped. The families who run the town will do anything to protect their own - anything.

Industry Reviews

"A fragmented narrative, using half a dozen different viewpoints, tells the story of the "thin line between an organised society and raw nature", and presents a compelling account of people torn by clan loyalty and made desperate by love, hate and loneliness" -- Eric Brown The Guardian "Reed's writing is pithy, poignant and never less than gripping. No one escapes her eye for mercilessly dissecting human failings. Son of Destruction is about the toxicity of buried truths. It is also about psychic powers, although to the very last line the reader is kept guessing as to whether these actually exist in the world of this novel - or are merely the product of coincidence" -- James Lovegrove Financial Times "This contemporary gothic mystery will keep readers guessing" Booklist "Fascinating paranormal detective novel" Publishers Weekly

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