Lasting Damage

It's 1:15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she's logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge. She knows it's for sale; she saw the estate agent's board in the front garden less than six hours ago.
Soon Connie is clicking on the "Virtual Tour" button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there's a woman lying face-down in a huge pool of blood. In shock, Connie wakes her husband, Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room ... Sophie Hannah is the author of seven internationally bestselling psychological thrillers published in twenty countries. The Other Half Lives was shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Bookseller's Book of the Year Award. Little Face and Hurting Distance were longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, and Little Face was longlisted for the IMPAC Award. Hannah lives with her husband and two children in Cambridge, where she is fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College.