´Great characterisation and plenty of genuine suspense in a psychological thriller par excellence´ Guardian´Absorbing and original ... The writing is pitch perfect. A very smart tale packed with jeopardy´ Daily Mail´Terrifying and amusing ... keeps you guessing till the very end´ The TimesA nephew. An uncle. A psychopath - but which of them is it?Gil knows his nephew Matthew is dangerous. The signs were there early - on a family holiday Gil´s daughter was discovered nearly drowning at the bottom of a swimming pool, while Matthew looked on from the deck. Now seventeen, Matthew is orphaned when his parents die in a car crash. He must leave his life on the Upper East Side of Manhattan behind, to live with Gil, his wife and daughters in rural Vermont. He is insolent, bored, disconnected. At least that´s Gil´s take. To the women in the family he is charming, intelligent, wry. But when he disdainfully joins Gil´s writing classes at the local university, Matthew´s fiction shows a vivid an...