‘The week I shot a man clean through the head began like any other . . .’
A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder—and the killer who must confront his own ghosts
Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay.
But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he’s being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget, and he isn’t the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals, and unsolved mysteries.
A tense, spellbinding page-turner, The Sunshine Man twists its way through the web of lives left shattered after a terrible crime and crafts an unforgettable tale of loss and revenge.
Genre: Mystery
A taut, electrifying thriller about a woman determined to avenge her sister’s murder—and the killer who must confront his own ghosts
Birdie Keller wakes one freezing January morning to the news she’s been waiting eighteen years to hear. Jimmy Maguire, the man who killed her sister, has been freed from jail. She leaves for London with a pistol and a plan: to find this man and make him pay.
But every story has two sides. Jimmy can sense he’s being hunted. He knew Birdie a long time ago, in a life she’d sooner forget, and he isn’t the only one with something to hide. As the two circle each other in a heart-stopping game of cat and mouse, they plunge into a murky world of family secrets, betrayals, and unsolved mysteries.
A tense, spellbinding page-turner, The Sunshine Man twists its way through the web of lives left shattered after a terrible crime and crafts an unforgettable tale of loss and revenge.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"The Sunshine Man is a masterful literary thriller . . .A deeply thrilling and emotionally rich page-turner. One of my books of the year." - Lucy Clarke
"This dark, compelling novel of trauma, revenge and damaged lives really got under my skin ... The prose shines with beauty, the characters are vividly drawn and the plot hurtles headlong towards its unforgettable ending." - Lucy Diamond
"A wholly original immersive thriller with love and family at its heart, and just exquisite writing." - Harriet Evans
"A compelling and masterful thriller - with a loaded gun, a car chase and a woman set on revenge - and a compassionate tale of grief, resilience, love and absolution." - Susan Fletcher
"A remarkable novel - heart-wrenching, unflinching and deeply compassionate ... thrilling, and incredibly moving. If you loved The Lamplighters, I guarantee you'll love The Sunshine Man too." - Emylia Hall
"Masterful. Not only suspenseful and exquisitely tense but a nuanced, humanely observed portrait of grief and trauma. A triumph." - Jo Harkin
"Emma Stonex returns with a dark, powerful page-turner - a story full of pain and loneliness but also love and redemption. A very sophisticated and moving psychological thriller." - Emily Koch
"Gripping, heartbreaking, and one of the most psychologically complex thrillers I've ever read." - Caroline Lea
"A novel that stays with you long after reading, The Sunshine Man is a worthy successor to the excellent The Lamplighters . . . a compelling, tight thriller with heart." - Jodie Matthews
"Spellbinding and beautifully written, The Sunshine Man transcends genre. It's an unbearably tense thriller and a nuanced examination of fractured lives, grief and trauma. Told in glittering and poetic prose with an impeccable sense of place, this is a granular exploration of big questions - revenge, love and redemption. I ---ing loved it!" - Nikki May
"Some books grab you by the throat, others by the heart. The Sunshine Man seizes both then refuses to let go. Threaded through with a deep, unfurling sense of dread, yet dazzling in its tenderness and heart, this compelling literary thriller cements Emma Stonex's place as one of our brightest literary talents. A masterful achievement." - Hannah Richell
"Full of driving tension and rising dread, The Sunshine Man is compelling, moving and totally original. I'll be thinking about it for a long time." - Kate Riordan
"A brilliantly accomplished story of fractured lives and the long-term reverberations of violent crime, The Sunshine Man is both poetic and fiendishly gripping. Stonex's prose is bruising and beautiful." - Rosie Walsh
"Imaginative, tender and compelling, Emma Stonex's writing glows from the page. A charged and unforgettable story." - A J West
"This dark, compelling novel of trauma, revenge and damaged lives really got under my skin ... The prose shines with beauty, the characters are vividly drawn and the plot hurtles headlong towards its unforgettable ending." - Lucy Diamond
"A wholly original immersive thriller with love and family at its heart, and just exquisite writing." - Harriet Evans
"A compelling and masterful thriller - with a loaded gun, a car chase and a woman set on revenge - and a compassionate tale of grief, resilience, love and absolution." - Susan Fletcher
"A remarkable novel - heart-wrenching, unflinching and deeply compassionate ... thrilling, and incredibly moving. If you loved The Lamplighters, I guarantee you'll love The Sunshine Man too." - Emylia Hall
"Masterful. Not only suspenseful and exquisitely tense but a nuanced, humanely observed portrait of grief and trauma. A triumph." - Jo Harkin
"Emma Stonex returns with a dark, powerful page-turner - a story full of pain and loneliness but also love and redemption. A very sophisticated and moving psychological thriller." - Emily Koch
"Gripping, heartbreaking, and one of the most psychologically complex thrillers I've ever read." - Caroline Lea
"A novel that stays with you long after reading, The Sunshine Man is a worthy successor to the excellent The Lamplighters . . . a compelling, tight thriller with heart." - Jodie Matthews
"Spellbinding and beautifully written, The Sunshine Man transcends genre. It's an unbearably tense thriller and a nuanced examination of fractured lives, grief and trauma. Told in glittering and poetic prose with an impeccable sense of place, this is a granular exploration of big questions - revenge, love and redemption. I ---ing loved it!" - Nikki May
"Some books grab you by the throat, others by the heart. The Sunshine Man seizes both then refuses to let go. Threaded through with a deep, unfurling sense of dread, yet dazzling in its tenderness and heart, this compelling literary thriller cements Emma Stonex's place as one of our brightest literary talents. A masterful achievement." - Hannah Richell
"Full of driving tension and rising dread, The Sunshine Man is compelling, moving and totally original. I'll be thinking about it for a long time." - Kate Riordan
"A brilliantly accomplished story of fractured lives and the long-term reverberations of violent crime, The Sunshine Man is both poetic and fiendishly gripping. Stonex's prose is bruising and beautiful." - Rosie Walsh
"Imaginative, tender and compelling, Emma Stonex's writing glows from the page. A charged and unforgettable story." - A J West
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