{"product_id":"stone-bruises","title":"Stone Bruises","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Somebody!' I half-sob and then, more quietly, 'Please.' The words seem absorbed by the afternoon heat, lost amongst the trees. In their aftermath, the silence descends again. I know then that I'm not going anywhere...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated part of rural France at the height of a sweltering summer. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the parched fields and country lanes but his leg is caught in a vicious animal trap. Near unconscious from pain and loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women - daughters of the owner of a rundown local farm with its ramshackle barn, blighted vineyard and the brooding lake. And it's then that Sean's problems really start...  \u003cbr\u003eThis nail-shredder of a thriller - like the fiction of Nicci French or Gillian Flynn - holds you from the beginning, tightening its grip as the story unfurls and shocks you with its final twist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon Beckett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48053091860658,"sku":"9780857502582","price":320.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/17932_60dd6e66889d68.95139415_9780857502582.jpg?v=1789520772","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/stone-bruises","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}