Scrap - Calla Henkel

Already optioned for TV, with praise from Paula Hawkins, Alice Slater and Emma Jane Unsworth, SCRAP is a compulsive, blackly comic tale of art, true crime, extreme wealth, justice and revenge.

Esther is an artist - distraught after her girlfriend Jessica vanishes from their cabin with a breakup note – who is enlisted by Naomi Duncan, a high society lady, to create a series of scrapbooks about her family history. Isolated in the woods, with only true crime podcasts for company as she sifts through years of photos and documents, her obsessive tendencies come to the fore when her employer dies suspiciously. Esther inveigles herself in the lives of the Duncan family to investigate and then things get really dangerous…