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The terrifying Hammer novella by Minette Walters, bestselling author of The Sculptress and The Scold´s Bridle

Muna´s bedroom is a dark windowless cellar and her activities are confined to cooking and cleaning. She´s grown used to being maltreated by the Songoli family; to being a slave.

She´s never been outside, doesn´t know how to read or write, and cannot speak English.

At least that´s what the Songolis believe.

But Muna is far cleverer - and her plans more terrifying - than the Songolis, or anyone else, can ever imagine ...

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"This compact and extraordinarily atmospheric story packs much more than many longer books." The Guardian

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Minette Walters is England´s bestselling female crime writer. She is the author of eleven novels and has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette Walters lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.

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