Publisher's Synopsis
SALTBURN meets AMERICAN PSYCHO in new classic literary crime novel Lucian is the Wykehamist: a bright, handsome, charming, and privately educated young man who glides through life effortlessly from Winchester College to Cambridge University, to London, and finally Hong Kong. But when Lucian is arrested, his secrets begin to unravel, and the dark, violent side of him is exposed... Quiet and reclusive, Clementine doesn't allow anyone to get close to her. She struggled to make friends at Cambridge University, finding the elite circles too exclusive and intimidating. But there was one man, Lucian, who she was desperate to know. Now a journalist, Clementine cannot resist the urge to rediscover the man who has been her obsession for so long...