One Dark Night
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4.1 • 24 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
‘Thrilling and page-turning!’ Sally Hepworth
One night in the woods
A party gone wrong
A body discovered at sunrise
He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress …
Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, her body carefully arranged at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into turmoil.
With a teenage daughter of his own, police detective Ben Chase knows how high the stakes are. Was the girl the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does her death represent something more sinister and ritualistic?
As the investigation unfolds and the noose tightens around Chase’s own family, the only thing anyone can be sure of is that no one is safe until this violent killer is caught.
A tense, clever and claustrophobic thriller where no one is who they seem and the danger lies just out of sight.
'The new master of the atmospheric thriller' Ali Lowe
'delivers suspense until the very end.' Books+Publishing
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Richell's hair-raising latest (after The River Home) centers on the aftermath of a Halloween party thrown by posh teenagers in an eerie stretch of woods near Bath. The morning after the festivities, Folly View College student Sarah Lawson is found at the bottom of a building deep in the forest, clad in a white dress with her head bashed in and the words "PUNISH DESTROY REPENT" scrawled across her body. Sarah's death recalls the local legend of a ghost called Sally in the Wood, who has supposedly haunted the area ever since she was killed by her fiancé on their wedding day. As police interrogate Sarah's teachers and classmates, Richell weaves in the story of a deranged, nameless young man recently released from prison after serving time for murder, who lives in the caves near the spot where Sally died. Though few of the characters are truly three-dimensional, Richell delivers a well-executed whodunit that culminates in a darkly satisfying reveal. This solid suspense tale goes down smooth.
