• Paperback
• Condition: Good
• 437 pages
• Fiction: Mystery, Thriller, Crime

It's been a decade since Robert Pendleton published his brilliant debut, and his hopes for a dazzling literary career have faded. Barely hanging on to his tenure in literature at Bannockburn College, Pendleton is in despair.

Death seems to be the only option, but his suicide failes, halted by the intervention of Adi Wiltshire, a student. During Pendleton's convalescence, Adi discovers a novel hidden in his basement: a quasi-autobiographical story with a gruesome child-murder at its core.

The publication of Scream causes a storm of publicity. The novel is treated as an existential masterpiece - until questions begin to be asked: in particular about the uncanny resemblance between Pendleton's fictional crime and a real, unsolved murder...