Allen & Unwin Dead Letters book Fiction English Paperback 352 pages

Ava's twin sister is missing, maybe even dead. In order to learn the truth she must follow the clues from A to Z. A clever, intricate and beautifully executed novel about the games sisters play, and their occasionally deadly consequences...

Some games are dangerous.And some are deadly...Ava doesn't believe it when the email arrives to say that her twin sister is dead. It just feels too perfect to be anything other than Zelda's usual manipulative scheming. And Ava knows her twin.Now, Ava must return home to retrace her sister's last steps. But her search turns into a twisted scavenger-hunt of her twin's making.Letter by letter, Ava unearths clues to her sister's disappearance, which reveal a series of harrowing truths from their past - truths both of them had tried to forget.A is for Ava, Z is for Zelda, but deciphering the letters in-between is not so simple...

Caite Dolan-Leach is a literary translator and critic, whose translations from French have been published by Dalkey Archive Press. Her criticism has appeared in Music and Literature, The Quarterly Conversation and the White Review. She currently lives in Paris. Dead Letters is her debut novel.