Dead Animals

Searing Observer is a brilliant, chilling, and furious novel about a young woman who wakes up with scratches and bruises after a house party and discovers a gap in her memory. Helene, an enigmatic and captivating woman, knows what the man at the party did and is planning revenge, but the cost is murderously high. The novel is a brutal, blistering horror story about precarious lives and is unputdownable.

Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 11 April 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Searing Observer


A blistering, unbearably tense read, I wonderfully chilling. . . a delectable slice of defiantly queer menace. Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells


There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All it would take is to let your mind wander, to let it come into view.


A young woman wakes after a house party with scratches and bruises - and a gap in her memory.


As the violent truth comes back to her - a series of events she struggles to name - her anger grows.


Solace comes in the form of enigmatic, captivating Helene, who knows what the man at the party did, has suffered at his hands too. An act of violence demands one in return, and Helene is planning revenge.


But who can afford to ask for justice, when the cost is murderously high?


A brilliant, chilling, furious novel. Real, relatable, and unputdownable. Rachel Long, author of My Darling from the Lions


A brutal, blistering horror story about precarious lives. Part Eileen, part Carrie. I gulped it down. Clare Pollard, author of Delphi

Weight: 278g
Dimension: 224 x 143 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399728133