Rabbit Hole
A Jennette McCurdy book club pick
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**A Jennette McCurdy book club pick**
**An Independent Book of the Month**
'I loved it: the fast pace, the wry protagonist, and how Brody painfully examines the measures we take to find closure' Jennette McCurdy
'A brilliant, dark debut about grief and the way in which the internet can magnify mania' Mail on Sunday
'I fell down Rabbit Hole in an obsessive spiral' Kate Reed Petty
'A twisty, pacy crime thriller' independent.co.uk
'A mindblowing debut' Heather Darwent
'A gritty tale of grief, family secrets and addiction' Observer
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A deliciously dark and twisted debut about family secrets, true crime, and destructive obsession – by a striking new talent
Teddy Angstrom is no stranger to morbid public interest in her family's tragedies. And when her father dies suddenly, ten years to the day after her sister Angie's disappearance, she intends to maintain as much privacy as she always has.
Clearing out her father's office, however, Teddy discovers her father's double life: a decade-long investigation into wild conspiracies from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie. Repelled and compelled in equal measure by this new online dimension, Teddy finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole.
So when nineteen-year-old Mickey, a charming amateur internet sleuth, materialises in real life, Teddy determines that the two of them are going to team up to find out what really happened to Angie – and whether there's any chance she might still be alive.
But as she struggles to reconcile new information with old memories, Teddy doesn't notice that her obsession is making her increasingly self-destructive. And she's in way over her head before she's realises that Mickey, too, is not all she seems…
Noirish, haunting and razor-sharp, as compulsive as a late-night Reddit binge, Rabbit Hole is an unforgettable debut about violence, family and grief.
'A smart and edgy mystery that kept me turning pages from start to finish' Alexis Schaitkin
'I absolutely loved this book … I couldn't put it down' Ainslie Hogarth
'An unputdownable debut from a writer I would follow anywhere' Allie Rowbottom
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brody's sure-footed debut paints a harrowing portrait of a life derailed by internet conspiracy theories. Teddy Angstrom is a 26-year-old English teacher at a prestigious prep school in coastal Maine. When Teddy was 16, her 18-year-old sister, Angie, disappeared. Now, on the 10th anniversary of that event, Teddy's father, Mark, has driven off a bridge to his death. Sifting through her father's belongings, Teddy discovers he'd grown obsessed with Reddit true crime communities dedicated to Angie's unsolved disappearance, many of which have developed far-flung conspiracy theories (including one that Mark killed Angie) to explain it. Equal parts horrified and fascinated by the discovery, Teddy starts to poke around the communities herself, quickly becoming addicted to the puzzles they present and neglecting her personal and professional responsibilities in the process. As she burrows ever deeper, her grasp on reality slips, and she begins confusing actual memories of her sister with some of the conspiracy theories. Did she really know Angie? Or her father? Narrating from Teddy's point of view, Brody explores in elegant prose potent themes both contemporary (internet addiction) and evergreen (grief), though she winds up delivering more of a twisted character study than a bona fide mystery. For genre fans who don't mind loose ends, this is worth the plunge.