Jamaica Inn

"A brilliantly executed thriller" – VOGUE

"Daphne du Maurier has no equal" – SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

"The master of slow-burning menace" – STACEY HALLS

"Her influence on fiction is incalculable, her imagination unsurpassable" – ANDREW MICHAEL HURLEY

"She was a woman, and for no reason in heaven or earth she loved him. He had kissed her, and she was bound to him for ever."

On a bitter November evening, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to seek refuge with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn. But the crumbling inn is far from a safe haven.

• Aunt Patience is a changed woman, cowering before her domineering husband, Joss.
• Mary finds herself in fear for her life, disturbed by her powerful attraction to Joss's younger brother.
• She is soon drawn into a brutal world of smuggling and murder, where trust is a luxury she cannot afford—not even in herself.

"The author's stunning evocation of her beloved Cornwall is the real star of this book" – RUTH WARE