Is this teenage girl a demonised victim or cold-blooded killer...? We Need to Talk About Kevin meets The Secret History in this gripping novel about secrets and murder, soon to be a Netflix TV series. Quicksand was Sweden`s bestselling novel of 2017. The air is hazy and grey with gunpowder smoke. Everyone has been shot but me. I haven`t got so much as a bruise.... Is Maja a normal eighteen-year-old, the poster girl-next-door, popular and excelling at her schoolwork, caught in the middle of a terrible tragedy? Or is she the most reviled teenager in the country? Either way, everyone knows her name. She has spent nine excruciating months in jail, awaiting trial for a mass murder that killed her boyfriend and her best friend, and now the time has come for her to enter the courtroom... ***What people are saying about QUICKSAND*** `A suspenseful and addictive experience... [Giolito] expertly delves into the fickle psyche of the media and how they can change a story`s narrative with one headline and she shames the press`s tendency to report wild conjecture over facts... Though Giolito`s perspective is Swedish, it absolutely translates to a greater global crisis` Real Crime `Giolito gives us the unsettling monologue of a teenage girl as she works her way through her role in murder. It is a splendid work of fiction` Kirkus Reviews `Gioloto`s novel is haunting and immersive` Publishers Weekly`Mystery and intrigue in its purest form. Great book, recommended to all`Marg J., bookseller `A fascinating, often uncomfortable, but thoroughly engrossing read` Sarah B. `Sweden`s latest blockbuster thriller lives up to the hype` Washington Post `Maja [is] a heroine you will not forget, victim of a toxic love story with a background so familiar to us nowadays... a super thriller - a real page-turner`Mariagrazia M. `I have never read a book by a Swedish author so when Quicksand became available I decided that it was the perfect opportunity to try. I certainly wasn`t disappointed` Diane Hogg, NetGalley Reviewer 5* `A really powerful book` Netgalley reviewer Sarah Bell, Netgalley reviewer 4* `A fast-paced and intriguing mystery that was easy to read and kept me turning the pages` Kimberely Knight, Netgalley reviewer 4*