‘An outstanding thriller. Just make sure you read it with ALL the lights on.’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘All the wows!!!’ Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

One sister went out into the dark for help. Will she come back?

Returning from a difficult visit to their father, three sisters find themselves lost in a storm. Together, they seek safety in an abandoned manor house, a place where they spent a troubled childhood clinging to each other for support, before one day fleeing with their parents in the dead of night.

As the storm intensifies, the sisters draw straws to decide who should go outside to get help. But as they separate, they realise they might not be alone. . . Why did the family leave so suddenly all those years ago? Who else is hiding in the house? And will the sisters survive the night?

Read what everyone is saying about The Short Straw:

‘An intensely readable and gripping page-turner. By turns tense, shocking and moving, and with an atmosphere you could cut with a knife’ ALEX MICHAELIDES

‘An addictive read that takes place over one unforgettable night where one family’s secrets rise to the surface – Patricia Highsmith meets Shirley Jackson’ GILLIAN MCALLISTER

‘Deliciously creepy, and a fascinating study of the complex, often toxic, relationships within families’ SHARON BOLTON

‘Utterly gripping and unputdownable’ JANE FALLON

‘Having three sisters, I could relate to the sibling dynamics . . . It’s twisty, gothic, and with a heartbreakingly shocking reveal’ LISA HALL

‘Holly creates such exquisite tension that you really can’t put her books down . . . I felt the sense of place, the weather, the cold in that house in my bones’ EMMA CURTIS

‘Gripping, creepy and drenched in atmosphere’ CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD

‘This irresistible slow-burn thriller is as much a study of family dynamics as it is a creepy & suspense-filled spine-tingler’ FIONA CUMMINS

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John Grisham’s first and most shocking legal thriller, adapted as a film starring Samuel L. Jackson and Matthew McConaughey.
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THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER FROM THE MASTER OF LEGAL THRILLERS

When Carl Lee Hailey guns down the violent racists who raped his ten-year-old daughter, the people of the small town of Clanton, Mississippi see it as justice done, and call for his acquittal.

But when extremists outside Clanton – including the KKK – hear that a black man has killed two white men, they invade the town, determined to destroy anything and anyone that opposes their sense of justice. A media circus descends on Clanton.

As tensions mount, Hailey hires the inexperienced Jake Brigance to defend him. It is the kind of case that could make a young lawyer’s career.

But it’s also the kind of case that could get a young lawyer killed. . .
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‘A master at the art of deft characterisation and the skilful delivery of hair-raising crescendos’ Irish Independent

‘John Grisham is the master of legal fiction!’ Jodi Picoult

‘The best thriller writer alive’ Ken Follett

‘John Grisham has perfected the art of cooking up convincing, fast-paced thrillers’ Telegraph

‘Grisham is a superb and instinctive storyteller’ The Times

‘Grisham’s storytelling genius reminds us that when it comes to legal drama, the master is in a league of his own. . .’ Daily Record

‘Masterful – when Grisham gets in the courtroom he lets rip, drawing scenes so real they are not just alive, they are pulsating’ Mirror

‘A giant of the thriller genre!!!’ TimeOut

The original, epoch-defining Jake Brigance novel. Brigance returns in SYCAMORE ROW and A TIME FOR MERCY.

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