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Resin

Resin

Summary

The multi-award-winning international bestseller.

Suspenseful and heart-breaking, Resin is the story of what can happen when you love someone too much – when your desire to keep them safe becomes the thing that could irrevocably harm them.

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Liv died when she was just six years old.

Her father knew he was the only one who could keep her safe in this world. So one evening he left the isolated house his little family called home, he pushed their boat out to sea and watched it ruin on the rocks. Then he walked the long way into town to report his only child missing.

But behind the boxes and the baskets crowding her Dad’s workshop, Liv was hiding. This way her Dad had said, she’d never have to go to school; this way, she’d never have to leave her parents.

This way, Liv would be safe.

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Winner of Scandinavia's most prestigious awards: The Glass Key, The Golden Bullet, Best Crime Novel from the Swedish Crime Writer's Academy and The Harald Mogensen Award.

Reviews

  • Highly original . . . it reminded me of Stephen King at his best: creepy as hell, but with compassion for every character however misguided.
    Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph

About the author

Ane Riel

Ane Riel has won Scandinavia's four most prestigious literary awards for her novel Resin which has been a bestseller around the world.
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