Rosamund Lupton

To give you a taste of Rosamund Luton's compulsive debut thriller we've posted an extract from Sister over in the books section of the website.

Here's a quick teaser…

Mr Wright, the CPS lawyer who is taking my statement, sits opposite me. I think he's in his late thirties but maybe he is younger and his face has just been exposed to too many stories like mine. His expression is alert and he leans a fraction towards me, encouraging confidences. A good listener, I think, but what type of man?

'If it's OK with you,' he says, 'I'd like you to tell me everything, from the beginning, and let me sort out later what is relevant.'

I nod. 'I'm not absolutely sure what the beginning is.'

'Maybe when you first realised something was wrong?'

I notice he's wearing a nice Italian linen shirt and an ugly printed polyester tie – the same person couldn't have chosen both. One of them must have been a present. If the tie was a present he must be a nice man to wear it. I'm not sure if I've told you this, but my mind has a new habit of doodling when it doesn't want to think about the matter in hand. I look up at him and meet his eye.

'It was the phone call from my mother saying she'd gone missing.'

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