The Midnight Clock

‘A marvellously exciting - and thought-provoking - time-travelling murder mystery. Smart, funny, moving, atmospheric - I laughed a lot, cried once, could not stop reading, and now actually believe in time travel’ * Simon Mason *‘I love a murder mystery story, and this one had everything I look for! … It was the character that really drew me in though, brilliantly written with nuance and personalities that made them real. Millie is a main character that I rooted for in every chapter. This book is equal parts tension, explosive drama, and heart. I loved it’ * Ben Oliver *‘The time-slip mystery feels completely believable, and keeps us eagerly turning the pages’ * Irish Times *‘Unexpectedly funny as well as tense, this is a teenage read that shows that one of the strengths of time travel stories is how it throws up ideas about our connection to the past’ * Sunday Times *

Jamie Costello lives in London. Under her own name, Laura Wilson, she is the author of six educational books on historical subjects for eight-to-twelve-year-olds, and thirteen critically acclaimed psychological thrillers, including the DI Stratton series. Her books have been shortlisted for many awards, including the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger, and she has won both the CWA Historical Mystery Award and the French Prix du Polar Europeen. She was the Programming Chair for the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival in 2009, and co-programmes the Killer Women Crime Writing Festival. She is also the Guardian’s crime fiction reviewer.

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