WHAT'S DONE IN DARKNESS

In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, a woman finds that that sometimes our attempt to loosen the ties to our past only bind us further. McHugh enthralls with this suspenseful tale of a woman who pulls a real-life Gone Girl.

A woman who was abducted as a teenager must confront her past and untangle the truth of what happened to her in this dark thriller from the author of The Wolf Wants In. Deeply rooted in a strong sense of place, like the novels of Gillian Flynn, Laura Lippman, and Daniel Woodrell.

On a hot, hazy summer day, Sarabeth is forced to work her family's farmstand in Arkansas. It was only recently that Sarabeth had a normal teenage life in town, able to see her friends, starting to date--but that was before her parents found God and moved her and her siblings to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Now she has to wear long dresses even in the blistering heat, can't cut her hair, and can't spend time with anyone her age. Sarabeth has become rebellious and wayward. Then she is taken minutes after arriving at the farmstand. Blindfolded and chained to a basement wall, Sarabeth is held captive for weeks by a person she never sees or speaks to, and just when she thinks her life is about to be over, she wakes up along the side of a highway, where she is discovered by a passing motorist. Now an adult, she goes by Sarah, has cut ties with her family entirely, who never believed her story of an abduction, and has made a contented, if solitary life for herself in St. Louis. That is, until Detective Nick Farrow with the Missouri Highway Patrol Missing Persons Unit calls her, wanting her help to investigate the recent disappearance of a young girl in a case which bears striking similarities to Sarah's own.

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED AND AWARD-WINNING WRITER: The Weight of Blood won the 2015 International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, the Missouri Author Award, and the Silver Falchion award for Best First Novel--Literary Suspense. It was nominated for a Barry Award, an Alex Award, and a GoodReads Choice Award, and Entertainment Weekly called it "an expertly crafted thriller." Arrowood was a Sunday Times bestseller and a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel. The Wolf Wants In was one of Library Journal's Best Books of the Year.