Quicksand

<p><b>**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES**</b></p><p><b><i>We Need to Talk About Kevin </i></b>meets <b><i>The Secret History</i></b>. <br><br><i>The air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven't got so much as a bruise....</i><br><br> Is Maja a normal eighteen-year-old, the poster girl-next-door, popular and excelling at her schoolwork, caught in the middle of a terrible tragedy? Or is she guilty of the tragedy itself?<br><br> Either way, everyone knows her name. She has spent nine excruciating months in jail, awaiting trial for a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, and now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom... <br><br><b>WHAT WILL YOU BELIEVE? </b><br><br><b>This is the 'compelling and brutally candid' (<i>Daily </i><i>Mail</i>) story of a girl whose guilt was decided long before her trial - as searing as it is timely and moving. </b><br><br><b>***What people are saying about QUICKSAND***</b><br><br> Sensitive, moving and <b>absorbing</b>’  Marcel Berlins, <i>The Times </i><br><br> ‘This is the <b>evolution of Scandinavian crime</b>, in more ways than one’ Fredrik Backman<br><br> '<b>Compelling</b> and brutally candid, especially about modern adolescence, this is not a comfortable book, but the <b>story is so superbly told that it lingers in the mind long after the jury’s verdict</b>' <i>Daily Mail</i><br>   <br> '<b>A suspenseful and addictive experience</b>… [Giolito] expertly delves into the fickle psyche of the media and how they can change a story’s narrative with one headline and she shames the press’s tendency to report wild conjecture over facts… Though Giolito’s perspective is Swedish, it absolutely <b>translates to a greater global crisis</b>' <i>Real Crime</i><br><br> 'Giolito gives us the unsettling monologue of a teenage girl as she works her way through her role in murder. It is <b>a splendid work of fiction</b>' <i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><br> 'Gioloto’s novel is <b>haunting and immersive'</b> <i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br><b>'</b>Mystery and intrigue in its purest form. Great book, <b>recommended to all' </b><i>Marg J., bookseller<br><br> '</i>A fascinating, often uncomfortable, but <b>thoroughly engrossing</b> read'  <i>Sarah B.</i><br><br> ‘Sweden's latest <b>blockbuster </b>thriller <b>lives up to the hype</b>' <i>Washington Post</i><br><br> 'Maja [is] <b>a heroine you will not forget</b>, victim of a toxic love story with a background so familiar to us nowadays... <b>a super thriller – a real page-turner</b>’<br><i>Mariagrazia M.</i><br><br> 'I have never read a book by a Swedish author so when Quicksand became available I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to try. I certainly wasn't disappointed' <b>Diane Hogg, NetGalley Reviewer 5*</b></p>