Would you help a child desperate to be found?
Even if you realise he’s dead?
Ex-cellent!
Matthew Spencer
A ghost story,
a portrait of grief,
a murder mystery.
A crackling good read.
Author of Black River
With her examination of things that unmake us, as well as the things that help us pull ourselves back together, Alicia Thompson has delivered a compelling mystery quite unlike anything I’ve read before.
Hayley Scrivenor
Author of Dirt Town and Girl Falling
Ex
In 2011, Toby Soames dies from a freak accident on Hampstead Heath; Charlie Falk simply disappears. Two years later, Australian Adele Soames returns to London to be nearer her son and the places he loved. She is joined in her pilgrimages to the heath by Charlie. Charlie tells her things; unnerving things about his last day alive.
Enter DS Xandra Bentley, a member of Adele’s grief support group at St Bart’s. Xandra has worked on a number of cold cases of missing boys in the area and Adele’s information reignites her interest. As new evidence comes to light, Adele has the creeping dread that she is bringing danger closer to home.
Australian fiction author Alicia Thompson
Alicia grew up in Wollombi, a village in country NSW. Her twenties were spent travelling, working in the UK, and leading adventure tours in China and the Middle East. By the turn of the millennium she was back in Australia, consulting, teaching and publishing short stories, blogs and reviews.
Alicia went on to complete her Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. She has now published two books with US publisher NineStar Press and teaches creative writing courses up and down the east coast of Australia.
OMG just finished EX and loved it! 5 stars! It was so good and kept me hooked…hurry up and write another xx
– Jo, Oct 2024
Ex is a harrowing mystery with a grieving mother at its heart. It’s a compelling and relatable story which kept me guessing right until the end. Ex is a masterful blend of genres and will appeal to crime and romance readers alike.
– Brooke, Sept 2024
5 out of 5. I really enjoyed this – it starts off innocently (if tragically) enough, but things soon escalate. Thompson does an amazing job of evoking both vivid imagery, and strong emotions. The story moves along at a smooth pace, and is an odd blend of grief, life, loss, and sinister. All I can really say is, you need to read this.
– Liliyana Shadowlyn, Oct 2024
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