The Confession of Stella Moon

Because Dark Secrets Don’t Decompose A black, brooding tale of matricide, infanticide and dabbling with the occult, all set in 1970s Newcastle in a family so dysfunctional as to be sinister. After serving a prison sentence for the murder of her mother, young Stella is discharged to restart her life. But to do this, she must try to get to the bottom?of some gruesome secrets and strange rituals – and taxidermy that has left an extremely unpleasant odour both at the boarding house in town and at the deserted beach hut. Guilt, shame, paranoia and manipulation have woven a tangled web. All is ambiguous. What truth and what lies are behind the chilling confession of Stella Moon?