Jamaica Inn

'Whatever she would have to face in the future, and however frightened she would be, she would not leave Jamaica Inn now . . .'

On a bitter November evening, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to seek refuge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn. But the crumbling inn is no safe haven, and Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her domineering husband Joss. Plunged into a brutal world of smuggling and murder, and disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss's younger brother, Mary knows there is no one she can trust. Only by crossing her own moral line can she save herself...

'A great gothic writer' KATE MOSSE
'A novel about nothing less than pure evil . . . with an eerie and shocking kind of power' JULIE MYERSON
'A brilliantly executed thriller' VOGUE
'A dark tale. A brilliant thriller' DAILY EXPRESS