Just Before I Died: The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Ice Twins

Just Before I Died: The gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of The Ice Twins
S. K. Tremayne

Sometimes you can’t even trust yourself…The chilling new psychological thriller by S. K. Tremayne, author of the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller, THE ICE TWINS.How long can they keep you in the dark?It was just a patch of ice. Just a bit of bad luck. But it was nearly enough to kill Kath Redway, spinning her car into Burrator Reservoir in the beautiful Dartmoor National Park.Miraculously, Kath escapes her accident with a few bruises and amnesia. She is shocked but delighted to be back in her remote moorland farmhouse with her handsome husband Adam, and her shy, gifted daughter Lyla. She’s alive!But her family is not so delighted. Her husband is cold, even angry. Her daydreaming daughter talks ever more strangely, about a 'man on the moor'. Then, as chilling fragments of memory return, Kath realizes her 'accident' was nothing of the kind. And now her life collapses into a new world of darkness, menace, and terror.

Copyright (#u1511b4cf-7791-5034-a47a-e248e7f84d04)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Dedication (#u1511b4cf-7791-5034-a47a-e248e7f84d04)

For Star, on Kes Tor

Poor Kitty Jay

Such a beauty cast away,

This silent prayer should paint some peace on her grave

But something broke her sleep

From ‘Kitty Jay’, by Seth Lakeman

Table of Contents

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Title Page (#uace2b185-afb3-5415-940e-3e8c464a3eab)

Copyright (#u909f494c-5dc9-5e7d-8b17-a1177c65a872)

Dedication (#u266cc4e6-5bda-5bf3-903a-ce32ad86c5a4)

Epigraph (#uff2ffd96-efa9-5ff7-878c-a5a0f4639302)

Author’s Note (#udb94e930-e597-59ea-851c-15592d428401)

Huckerby Farm (#u300e3352-d486-529f-a75f-f709de5ccc1a)

Princetown (#ue5e75c81-c058-5946-93e8-13b7b1d4d1ed)

The Lych Way (#u720de0ec-3274-54e1-932f-249637cbb457)

Huckerby Farm (#uc22e03a4-215c-5246-9bc4-6eacbf2e699c)

Grey Wethers (#u8a28a42e-aa05-50aa-9761-3c9a9cc2b048)

Hobajob’s Wood (#u0ab8d5de-afa2-5c1d-8b54-b262ce8e0f35)

Huckerby Farm (#u55763a61-71db-5750-9321-a68063576c45)

Warren House Inn (#u6a6ad284-e6a1-54c3-824d-06085c16856b)

Vitifer Leat (#litres_trial_promo)

Salcombe (#litres_trial_promo)

Burrator (#litres_trial_promo)

Venner (#litres_trial_promo)

Princetown (#litres_trial_promo)

Hexworthy (#litres_trial_promo)

Salcombe (#litres_trial_promo)

Two Bridges Hotel (#litres_trial_promo)

Morrice Town, Plymouth (#litres_trial_promo)

Black Tor (#litres_trial_promo)