{"product_id":"the-girl-on-the-stairs-by-louise-welsh-3584c","title":"The Girl on the Stairs by Louise Welsh","description":"\u003cp\u003eJane Logan is a stranger to Berlin and she finds the city alive and echoing with the ghosts of its turbulent past. At six months pregnant, she's instructed by her partner Petra to rest and enjoy her new life in Germany. But while Petra is out at work, Jane begins to feel uneasy in their chic apartment. Screams reverberate through the walls, lights flicker in the derelict building that looms over the yard, a shadow passes on the stairs . . .   Jane meets a neighbour's daughter, a girl whose life she tries to mend, but her involvement only further isolates her. Alone and haunted, Jane fears the worst . . . but the worst is yet to come.  Louise Welsh, the acclaimed author of The Cutting Room, delivers another masterful suspense novel. The Girl on the Stairs is a powerful psychological thriller packed with twists and turns to keep you reading well into the night. Read it, or be left in the dark.  Review  'Crime fiction may have its prize-winner at last' (Independent on THE CUTTING ROOM )  'Fewer contemporary novelists write as well as Welsh, and fewer British writers stand equal to her narrative ease' (Irish Times on NAMING THE BONES )  'Welsh heaps on the tension, chapter by chapter, in this enthralling read' (Vogue on Naming the Bones )  'Gripping story, shrewd characterisation, humour, eroticism, the macabre ... a spattering of gore' (Scottish Review of Books on Naming the Bones )  'Plenty of thrilling tricks and turns' (The Observer on The Bullet Trick )  'The action never flags for a minute' (Sunday Telegraph on The Bullet Trick )  'Keeps its secrets and tricks and, above all, its reader, hectically on the run' (Irish Times on The Bullet Trick )  'A fast-paced and sparkling story' (The Herald on Tamburlaine Must Die )  'Utterly engrossing. I read it in a sitting, unable to put it down' (The Sunday Telegraph on Tamburlaine Must Die )  'A rocket-propelled novella' (The List on Tamburlaine Must Die )  'A page-turner to the very end' (The Sunday Herald on Tamburlaine Must Die )  'The sort of narrative you can smell on your hands after turning the pages' (Literary Review on Tamburlaine Must Die )  'Intriguing, assured and unputdownable' (The Sunday Times on The Cutting Room )  'It twists to the sort of climax Rilke would recognise; brief but fulfilling' (The Times on The Cutting Room )  'I was hooked from page one' (The Guardian on The Cutting Room ) --'I was hooked from page one' (The Guardian on The Cutting Room )  About the Author Louise Welsh is the author of eight novels including The Cutting Room, A Lovely Way to Burn and Death is a Welcome Guest. She has received numerous awards and international fellowships, including an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Edinburgh Napier University and an honorary fellowship from the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Louise Welsh is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41821257072714,"sku":"3584c","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3584c_d70d96ba-30bf-47da-b89c-beb4c04362c2.jpg?v=1764344603","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-girl-on-the-stairs-by-louise-welsh-3584c","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}