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The Binding Song

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22nd February 2018

Price: £9.99

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781473642171

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A chilling debut for fans of Mo Hayder and Sharon Bolton.

Welcome to HMP Halvergate.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get to leave.


Dr Janet Palmer was glad to take a new job as lead psychologist at a remote Norfolk prison. She may live to regret it…

The staff are hostile, violence can break out at any time, no one will tell her what happened to her predecessor, and there are rumours of an eyeless woman stalking the corridors, driving the prisoners to suicide.

Janet is determined to find answers. But the deeper she digs, the more she realises: something is rotten in Halvergate. And it’s nothing as simple as ghosts . . .

Reviews

SJI Holliday, author of <i>The Damselfly</i>
Creepy from the word go, utterly compelling and hauntingly tragic - but I'll warn you now - you might have to sleep with the lights on.
Jon Snow
Elodie Harper's first novel, set in HMP Halvergate, has become all the more possible, given what else has been going on beyond our prison walls. Plotting, pace and writing render The Binding Song a must read.
Ali Land, author of <i>Good Me, Bad Me</i>
A glut of troubled souls, an eerie, atmospheric setting. Elodie Harper knows how to write a damn good horror story.
Jenny Blackhurst, author of <i>Before I Let You In</i>
Brilliant. I had shivers.
Debbie Howells, author of <i>The Bones of You</i>
I was completely engrossed. A sinister, creepy read that leaves the reader questioning everyone and trusting no-one.
Claire McGowan, author of <i>A Savage Hunger</i>
Breathtakingly atmospheric and chilling
John Connolly, author of the Charlie Parker series
A splendidly unsettling debut - a chilling mystery to be read with the lights on and your back to the wall.
Claire Douglas, author of <i>Local Girl Missing</i>
One of the most chilling, atmospheric debuts I've read. It was so compelling and creepy my heart beat with fear at times.
James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series
The evocation of place is first class...wonderfully paced, the tension ratchets up to a very satisfying ending. A thoroughly enjoyable read.
Mark Edwards
Deliciously creepy. The Binding Song is a nerve-jangling treat for fans of Mo Hayder or Stephen King.
i Paper
Satisfying and thought-provoking in equal measure, and it stays in the mind long after the final page is turned. Harper, as Mr King so astutely realised, is definitely one to watch.
Will Dean, author of <i>Dark Pines</i>
Eerie, atmospheric, dark, gripping. Hints of Susan Hill and Stephen King. Superb.
Sarah Perry, author of <i>The Essex Serpent
A wonderful new arrival in the 'Norfolk Noir' genre, this deliciously gripping novel casts the familiar setting of Norwich and its surroundings in a grim and haunting new light.