Emma Styles
A propulsive psychological thriller from Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize-winner Emma Styles.
A SERIAL KILLER STALKING THE SHORELINE.
TWO GIRLS IN OVER THEIR HEADS.
About the book
The serial killer thriller you won’t see coming this summer.
Described as ‘two women taking justice into their own hands, badly,’ THE SHARK is the follow-up to Emma’s award-winning debut, No Country for Girls.
Teen girls Carmen and Raych decide to fight back when a serial killer is stalking their beachside neighbourhood, with deadly results. A dark psychological thriller about victimhood, power and the thin line between predator and victim.
‘Compulsively gripping’
VASEEM KHAN, author of THE GIRL IN CELL A
‘Totally original. A taut and unpredictable thriller’
CHRIS HAMMER, author of LEGACY
‘Uniquely Australian and packed with atmosphere, this is riveting reading’
SAM HOLLAND, author of THE COUNTDOWN KILLER
About Emma
Emma Styles writes contemporary Australian crime fiction about young women taking on the patriarchy. She grew up near the beach on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives on the south coast of the UK.
Into the dark
How Emma set out to write a serial killer thriller that isn’t centred on the perpetrator, but instead those affected by their crimes.
About Emma
Emma Styles writes contemporary Australian crime fiction about young women taking on the patriarchy. She grew up near the beach on Whadjuk Noongar Country in Perth, Western Australia and now lives on the south coast of the UK.
Into the dark
How Emma set out to write a serial killer thriller that isn’t centred on the perpetrator, but instead those affected by their crimes.
Also by emma
Winner of the 2023 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, No Country for Girls is a gritty road-trip thriller that follows two young women on the run along 2000 kilometres of remote highway in Western Australia.
Described as ‘a story of young, female empowerment and resilience’, No Country for Girls was a Val McDermid New Blood pick at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival. It was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey Dagger, the Ned Kelly Award for best debut and two Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.
Acknowledgement of country
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands, waters and skies where this story is set, and where I live and work when in Australia, and I pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.