The Night Stairs (Erin Kelly)

Twenty-four years ago, a girl died on the night stairs at St Cordula's Catholic boarding school.

Only three people know what really happened that night. And keeping the secret could prove deadly.

'I raced through it' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Utterly compulsive' RUTH WARE
'Had me hooked from page one' JENNIE GODFREY
'Relentlessly gripping' LUCY CLARKE

St Cordula's has survived for centuries on tradition, discipline and silence. Now Deputy Head Fiona Fox is preparing to make a controversial change that could save the school from ruin.

But some traditions are dangerous to break.

Legend says St Cordula's will remain safe as long as the words 'GOD FORGIVE ME', scrawled on a chapel wall by a fifteenth-century nun before her death, are preserved.

The last time they faded, in 2002, a mysterious outbreak of vertigo swept through the school.

One girl died.

Fiona knows her death wasn't an accident.

Now the vertigo is back.

Could unmasking the truth about what happened that night be more dangerous than if it had stayed buried?

**PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE TRAITORS, CLARE MACKINTOSH AND CLARE MCGOWAN**

Erin Kelly is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poison Tree, The Sick Rose, The Burning Air, The Ties That Bind, He Said/She Said, Stone Mothers/We Know You Know, Watch Her Fall, The Skeleton Key and The House of Mirrors, as well as Broadchurch: The Novel, inspired by the award-winning TV series. The Poison Tree became a major ITV drama and was a Richard & Judy Summer Read. He Said/She Said spent six weeks in the top ten in both hardback and paperback, was longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier crime novel of the year award and selected for both the Simon Mayo Radio 2 and Richard & Judy Book Clubs. The Skeleton Key was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller and was selected as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Born in London in 1976, Erin lives in north London with her husband and daughters.

Buch (Paperback), Trade paperback (UK), Englisch, 432 Seiten