High Pressure

A gripping standalone thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of Little Bones and The Dark Room





As temperatures soar across Europe during the hottest summer for forty years, a series of hoax terrorist attacks is generating panic in London. Then a bus blows up on Oxford Street and the hoaxes have suddenly become real.





Student Brioni O'Brien has been desperately trying to contact her older sister since she unexpectedly returned early from travelling, so when Marissa's bag is found near the site of the explosion, she fears the worst.





Teaming up with terrorism expert Anna Lockharte to search for Marissa, Brioni discovers that her sister had got herself into a very dangerous situation - and that now she and Anna could be caught in the fallout.



Sam Blake has been writing fiction since her husband set sail across the Atlantic for eight weeks and she had an idea for a book. Her debut novel, Little Bones, was No 1 in Ireland for four weeks, and was nominated for Irish Crime Novel of the Year. It launched the bestselling Cat Connolly trilogy. Her first standalone psychological thriller, Keep Your Eyes On Me, went straight to No 1 and its follow-up, The Dark Room was an Eason Ireland No 1 for three weeks.





Sam is originally from St. Albans in Hertfordshire but has lived at the foot of the Wicklow mountains for more years than she lived in the UK. She has two teenagers, three cats and lives in a 200-year-old cottage with an occasional poltergeist who moves things at the most inconvenient moments.





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Absolutely loved this book... It's her best yet. The writing is great. The characters are superb, and there's tension on every page... I can't wait to read the next book.



Great suspense and found myself second guessing every thought I had continuously. Can't wait to read what the author brings out next. Recommend reading.



An excellent read with creepy menace in it plus some gripping and twisty suspense too. Absolutely loved it. Couldn't put it down.



The tension almost vibrates from the page ... another must-read



An excellent, engrossing tale with a satisfyingly serpentine plot with a killer twist



Laced with creepy menace and dark characters that live in the mind, gets under the skin very quickly



Gripping and twisty ... Blake's strength lies in her ability to combine tough and memorable characters with a deliciously complex and fast-moving plot that never wanes.