Astunning and commercial new paperback jacket that places this book firmly in the popular literary thriller genre of Daphne du Maurier and Joanna Briscoe. A GBP20,000 London Underground advertising campaign to get this novel noticed by a 20s & 30-somethings market Lucie Whitehouse has received enormous attention for this debut novel and is a hot new talent; one of eight Daily Mail 'ones to watch' in 2008. She is currently working on her second novel.

'Scary, sexy, sultry and shimmering - a brilliant debut in the vein of Donna Tartt finds a group of close friends discovering more than they bargained for in a creepy Oxfordshire manor' Daily Mirror 'Whitehouse manages to tug at the sinister threads running through the book at just the right moment, keeping her tale taut and her reader transfixed. Suggestions of the horrors that lie in wait are scattered throughout the book like a trail of breadcrumbs, leading you even deeper into the dark forest of Whitehouse's creation, at the heart of which lie deceit, cowardice and murder' Beth Jones, Sunday Telegraph 'Psychological suspense as elegant as a Swiss watch but as powerful as a locomotive ... subtle, intelligent, accessible, and highly recommended' Lee Child 'A pacy literary thriller ... deeply spooky, compulsively readable' Time Out

Lucie Whitehouse was born in Warwickshire in 1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in London. The House at Midnight is her first novel.