Mad Broke Cold: An Unpredictable Psychological Asylum Thriller
The Silent Patient meets You: Mad Broke Cold is a fast-paced psychological thriller full of shocking twists.
For a few months, I’ve been hinting around a new book, and I’m THRILLED to be able to announce it today. Mad Broke Cold really took me back to my psychologist roots. If you’ve been around a while, you know I’m all-in on the ability to heal under extreme circumstances. And this novel let me play around in the brains of a bunch of amazing characters. I loved them so much that I’m a little sad it’s finished.
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Imagine an island housing some of the world’s most dangerous psychopaths, each with their own agenda and a knack for manipulation. Evelyn Hawthorn is a prime example—a brilliant mind with a dark past. When a brutal winter storm cuts off all contact with the outside world, the doctors and patients alike find themselves at the mercy of the elements—and each other.
Standalone ✅
Locked-door asylum thriller ✅
Psychological twists that keep coming ✅
Fast-paced and shocking ✅
ABOUT THE BOOK
Every person on Ice Island has an agenda—some understandable, some convoluted, some downright sadistic. Evelyn Hawthorn is a case in point. I’ll tell you about them all later… if we make it that long.
Ice Island is home to violent psychopaths too dangerous to be housed in a normal penitentiary. They are experts at murder. They are adept at finding ways around the system—and the people who run it. Most of them have managed to slip out of high-security prisons.
Luckily for the public, Ice Island is inescapable. Unfortunately for the doctors working today, a brutal winter storm just barreled into the island. They have no power, no phones. They’re running low on supplies. There will be no assistance from the mainland—boats are no match for the icy waves.
But the patients on this island don’t want to be rescued. They’re hunting. And the only prey they’re interested in are the doctors who have kept them locked up all these years.
The patients on Ice Island want blood.
Enter case #281762: Evelyn Hawthorn. The woman is a genius, driven, but brutally dangerous to every single person on the island. Especially herself.
Evelyn is seeing and hearing things that aren’t really there. She can’t remember the crimes that led to her being locked up. And she’s the one who cut the power, trapping all of them inside the asylum.
Without the most dangerous woman in the compound and the information she has locked inside her brain, not a single person will escape Ice Island alive—without Evelyn, a woman who couldn’t remember her own name until four hours ago.
If you love unreliable narrators, locked-door thrillers, whodunnits with surprising endings, and well-developed characters that bleed straight onto the page, dive into Mad Broke Cold today! An intense and addictive read for fans of Gillian Flynn, Freida McFadden, and Lucinda Berry.
“Dark, mind-bending, twisted, and disturbing, this gripping psychological thriller will have you questioning everything! A master of storytelling, O’Flynn expertly unravels the island’s secrets in a manner that will shock you to your core. An epic and addictive must-read.” ~Bestselling Author Emerald O’Brien
