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'FAST PACED AND GRIPPING BUT WITH A HEART OF PURE GOLD' HARRIET TYCE
'BEGINS AT THE SPEED OF A RUNAWAY TRAIN ... PROPULSIVE PAGE-TURNER' VASEEM KHAN
'GO RUBY! WHAT A HERO!' FIONA ERSKINE

It takes a village to save a child in this pulse-pounding standalone thriller from the acclaimed author…

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1 author picked You Can Run as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love a good page-turning thriller, but to keep my interest, there has to be more than thrills and spills – I want characters I care about too.

The heroine here, unusually, is a teenage girl, who’s funny, smart, and stroppy, but at the same time vulnerable and scared. She teams up with a nosy elderly lady who proves to have hidden depths and as they find themselves in a terrifying situation and tackle some seriously bad villains, I was rooting for them all the way.  

From Frances' list on quirky heroines.

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