The Farm

Tom Rob Smith

'Chilling, hypnotic and thoroughly compelling. You will not read a better thriller this year' Mark Billingham 'On rare occasions, an author pulls off the high-wire act of writing a crime-oriented novel that easily transcends the genre. The Farm is one of these... A remarkable achievement' Jeffery Deaver 'Tom Rob Smith has created a truly original and chilling thriller, which makes you ask yourself: who would I believe?' Jojo Moyes The hotly anticipated new stand-alone novel from the author of widely celebrated, Booker-longlisted debut novel Child 44If you refuse to believe me, I will no longer consider you my son... Daniel believed that his parents were enjoying a peaceful retirement on a remote farm in Sweden, the country of his mother's birth. But with a single phone call, everything changes. Your mother... she's not well, his father tells him. She's been imagining things - terrible, terrible things. In fact, she has been committed to a mental hospital. Before Daniel can board a plane to Sweden, his mother calls: Everything that man has told you is a lie. I'm not mad... I need the police... Meet me at Heathrow. Daniel is immediately caught between his parents - whom to believe, whom to trust? He becomes his mother's unwilling judge and jury. Presented with a horrific crime, a conspiracy that implicates his own father, Daniel must examine the evidence and decide for himself: who is telling the truth? And he has secrets of his own that for too long he has kept hidden...

Released Jan 1, 2014 by Simon and Schuster