Dead Man's Gift and Other Stories

by Simon Kernick

Genres: Short Stories; Crime Fiction; Suspense

Synopsis

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Dead Man's Gift and Other Stories by Simon Kernick, read by Paul Thornley and Bea Holland.

DEAD MAN'S GIFT

MP Tim Horton arrives home to find his seven year old son has been abducted by a ruthless gang of kidnappers. All they have left behind is the brutally murdered body of the Horton's nanny.

The gang's demands are simple: Tim must sacrifice his own life in order to save his son's.

It's the ultimate dead man's gift …

ONE BY ONE

Six former school-friends have been brought together on a remote island.

They haven't all been in contact since a fateful night twenty-one years ago, when their friend Rachel was found dead. The man arrested for her murder has now been acquitted, and the seven friends fear for their own lives.

But are they hiding from the right person? Or have they fallen into a deadly trap?

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