The Woods
the emotional and addictive thriller you won't be able to put down
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Publisher Description
*** Don't miss the obsessively gripping new thriller from Vanessa Savage - The Night They Vanished is out in ebook and available to pre-order in paperback now***
'Highly recommended' Nuala Ellwood
'Tense and creepy . . . brilliant' Harriet Tyce
'Hooks readers in and keeps them dangling will the very last page' Daily Mail
'Without a doubt the best book I've read this year' Reader Review *****
'Spine-chilling in its intensity, addictive and twisty, this was quite simply an AMAZING read' Reader Review *****
'Utterly addictive and impossible to second guess' Claire Douglas
'Dark and thoroughly compulsive, a definite up-all-nighter' Kate Hamer
'Extremely sinister . . . had me frantically turning the pages' Reader Review *****
'I literally could not put it down' Reader Review *****
'Taut, tense and brilliantly gripping' Simon Lelic
'Immersive and eerie' Heat
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For Tess, her older sister Bella is her whole world.
She's smart and beautiful and popular - everything Tess isn't - and since the death of their mother it's just been them and their grieving father.
But now a new family has moved into the empty house on the edge of the woods, bringing with them a world of boys and alcohol, and Tess can feel her sister slipping away from her. Until the bodies of two local schoolgirls are found in the woods, and Tess is convinced that this new family has something to hide.
As events threaten to destroy everything they hold dear, Bella and Tess determine to bring the truth to light.
So the two girls go into the woods . . .
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
London teacher Tess Cooper, the unreliable narrator of this tangled psychological thriller from British author Savage (The Woman in the Dark), can't refuse her father's request to return to her family's house in West Dean to see her dying, cancer-stricken stepmother, despite her lingering trauma over the accidental death of her older sister, Bella, then 18, in the nearby forbidding forest a decade earlier. Her one hope is that returning home might finally trigger memories of her sister's last hours a period that Tess, who was found unconscious near Bella's body, has never been able to recall. When the discovery of a skeleton by a demolition crew at a vacant neighboring property prompts the police to take a fresh look at Bella's death, the trouble really begins. Since the characters, most of whom are guarding secrets they're keen to keep buried, behave in ways that serve to jack up the suspense but don't otherwise make much sense, readers may struggle to engage with their plights. One is left feeling like the lost hiker in the woods who belatedly realizes they've been going around in circles.
