The Night Visitors — Jenn Ashworth

Shortlisted for The Saboteur Awards 2017 Best Novella.

Orla Nelson used to be a famous writer and now she's seeking a comeback. Alice Wells wants to make something of herself before it's too late. In The Night Visitors these two women, connected by blood and ambition, investigate their ancestor Hattie Soak, a silent film star who fled the scene of a gruesome unsolved crime. Told entirely via an exchange of emails, The Night Visitors is a story of ghosts, obsession and inherited evil.

This novella traces the ways in which technology can hold and transmit our worst secrets and unspoken fears, and what happens when uneasy collaborations start to unravel.