The Man on Hackpen Hill

Original and brilliantly plotted, with not so much a twist but a seismic shifting of the ground under your feet ... Amazing Rosamund Lupton An original, intelligent and twisty thriller set in rural Wiltshire. A dead body in a crop circle sends a coded message. Can DI Silas Hart uncover the chilling truth before its too late?\r\n\r\nIt isnt unusual for crop circles to appear overnight on Hackpen Hill. In this part of Wiltshire, where golden wheat fields stretch for miles, the locals have got used to discovering strange mathematical patterns stamped into the earth.\r\n\r\nBut this time, its different. Not only because this particular design of dramatic spiralling hexagons has never been seen before. But because of the dead body positioned precisely in the centre of the circle. DI Silas Hart, of Swindon Police, is at a loss.\r\n\r\nOnly Jim, a scientist at secretive government laboratory Porton Down, knows the chilling truth about the man on Hackpen Hill. And he wants Bella, a trainee journalist on her first ever story, to tell the world. But Silas has other ideas - and a boss intent on a cover up.\r\n\r\nAs Bella and Jim race against time, dark forces conspire against them, leading them to confront the reality of their own past and a world in which nothing is as it seems.\r\n\r\nReviews for J.S. Monroe:\r\n\r\nFull of unpredictable twists The Times \r\nIntricately woven and heart-stoppingly believable Clare Mackintosh \r\nThe most ingenious thriller you will read this year M.J. Arlidge \r\nCunning, captivating and creepy J.P. Delaney \r\nA tightly coiled and crafted plot Daily Mail \r\nPacy and propulsive Daily Telegraph \r\nYou wont be able to turn the pages fast enough Heat \r\nClever, imaginative and unusual Daily Mail