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The Cutting Stone
  • Published: 15 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781529961843
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

The Cutting Stone

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A body buried between rock and ice, at a local Peak District beauty spot, reveals a secret too close to home for Joe and Laurie in this gripping new DS Joseph Ashe thriller.

A body buried between rock and ice, at a Peak District beauty spot, reveals a secret too close to home for Joe and Laurie in this second DS Joseph Ashe thriller.

When a half-frozen body is found under the Bawd Stone, a local landmark linked with pagan ritual, DI Laurie Bower’s first call is to her best detective sergeant, Joseph Ashe. On leave after a traumatic case, Joe is still haunted by the tragedy he survived 17 years ago, when a school bus veered off the road and everyone drowned except him.

Joe and Laurie join forces as this new case takes them back to her old stamping ground of inner-city Manchester. But when the body is identified as Godfrey Hulme, her dead sister’s counsellor, it quickly becomes a deeply personal murder investigation. The truth of what happened, in both the past and the present, will have devastating consequences for Laurie and Joe alike.
  • Published: 15 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9781529961843
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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About the author

Sarah Hilary

Sarah Hilary is the critically-acclaimed author of nine novels. Her debut, Someone Else's Skin, won the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year 2015 and was also a World Book Night selection, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and a finalist for both the Silver Falchion and Macavity Awards in the US. No Other Darkness, the second in her DI Marnie Rome series, was shortlisted for a Barry Award. Sarah is Programme Director for St Hilda’s Crime Fiction Weekend, and co-founder of Ledburied, a crime fiction festival in her home town. Her short stories have won the Fish Criminally Short Histories Prize, the Cheshire Prize for Literature, and the SENSE Prize. www.sarahhilary.com
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Praise for The Cutting Stone

Will chill you to the bone… Fantastic

Paula Hawkins on The Drowning Place

Sarah Hilary’s writing is bitingly authentic and riven with emotional insight

Lucy Clarke on The Drowning Place

Highly original. Taut. Propulsive. Beautifully written; atmospheric and immersive. I’ve long admired Hilary’s writing, but this is next level stuff

Sarah Vaughan on The Drowning Place

As soon as I finished the first DS Joe Ashe book, I was greedy for the next instalment, and THE CUTTING STONE more than lived up to my expectations. Sarah Hilary makes the words dance on the page and brings places to life so evocatively it’s as though peaks are rising around the reader and branches cracking underfoot as the pages turn. And the characters; so real, so vulnerable, so alive. I care for her them as though they were my friends.

Erin Kelly

Gripping . . . Sarah Hilary brings places to life so evocatively it’s as though peaks are rising around the reader and branches cracking underfoot as the pages turn. And the characters; so real, so vulnerable, so alive

Erin Kelly

A triumphant second instalment, an even more complicated and multi-layered case for Joseph Ashe. Heart-warming and terrifying in equal measure.

Elly Griffiths

The superb second instalment of an exquisite and original series. Chillingly beautiful, atmospheric and enthralling. Already excited for the next one.

Anna Mazzola