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An 18-year-old girl stands trial for a mass shooting - but her narrative is highly unreliable ... We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Secret History in this gripping novel about secrets and murder.

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We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Secret History .

The air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven´t got so much as a bruise....

Is Maja a normal eighteen-year-old, the poster girl-next-door, popular and excelling at her schoolwork, caught in the middle of a terrible tragedy? Or is she guilty of the tragedy itself?

Either way, everyone knows her name. She has spent nine excruciating months in jail, awaiting trial for a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, and now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom...

WHAT WILL YOU BELIEVE?

This is the ´compelling and brutally candid´ ( Daily Mail ) story of a girl whose guilt was decided long before her trial - as searing as it is timely and moving.

What people are saying about QUICKSAND

Sensitive, moving and absorbing ´ Marcel Berlins, The Times

´This is the evolution of Scandinavian crime , in more ways than one´ Fredrik Backman

´ Compelling and brutally candid, especially about modern adolescence, this is not a comfortable book, but the story is so superbly told that it lingers in the mind long after the jury´s verdict ´ Daily Mail

´ A suspenseful and addictive experience ... [Giolito] expertly delves into the fickle psyche of the media and how they can change a story´s narrative with one headline and she shames the press´s tendency to report wild conjecture over facts... Though Giolito´s perspective is Swedish, it absolutely translates to a greater global crisis ´ Real Crime

´Giolito gives us the unsettling monologue of a teenage girl as she works her way through her role in murder. It is a splendid work of fiction ´ Kirkus Reviews

´Gioloto´s novel is haunting and immersive´ Publishers Weekly

´ Mystery and intrigue in its purest form. Great book, recommended to all´ Marg J., bookseller

´ A fascinating, often uncomfortable, but thoroughly engrossing read´ Sarah B.

´Sweden´s latest blockbuster thriller lives up to the hype ´ Washington Post

´Maja [is] a heroine you will not forget , victim of a toxic love story with a background so familiar to us nowadays... a super thriller - a real page-turner ´
Mariagrazia M.

´I have never read a book by a Swedish author so when Quicksand became available I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to try. I certainly wasn´t disappointed´ Diane Hogg, NetGalley Reviewer 5

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´Subliminal story, masterfully told.´ H†kan Nesser on Quicksand

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