In a Dark, Dark Wood
The twisty Sunday Times bestselling psychological thriller from the author of The Woman in Cabin 10
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4.0 • 240 Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
SOMEONE'S GETTING MARRIED. SOMEONE'S GETTING MURDERED
'Tense, terrifying' Clare Mackintosh
Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life and never looked back.
Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare's hen party arrives. A weekend in a remote cottage - the perfect opportunity for Nora to reconnect with her best friend, to put the past behind her.
But something goes wrong.
Very wrong.
And as secrets and lies unravel, out in the dark, dark wood the past will finally catch up with Nora.
‘Genuinely chilling and totally compulsive’ Sunday Mirror
‘Mesmerising’ Guardian
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Wow, prepare to lose a day to this tightly woven thriller about a hen party gone horribly wrong. Nora Shaw is a crime writer whose life is bottled up in routine. But her carefully managed composure begins to fall apart when she receives an invitation to attend a weekend getaway in honour of her estranged friend, Clare, who she hasn’t seen in 10 years. The tension that builds in this masterfully told tale of murder is so thick, we found it hard to breathe at times. First-time author Ruth Ware is witty and wicked—her pleasure in putting readers on edge is palpable.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Ware's solid but somewhat derivative first novel, a psychological thriller, crime writer Leonora Shaw leads a solitary life in London but receives an invitation to Northumberland to celebrate the impending marriage of Clare Cavendish, a friend she hasn't seen in 10 years. Nora and Clare were once inseparable, but something drove them apart. Nora and her sarcastic school chum, Nina da Souza, another invitee, decide to make the trip to the remote cottage known as the Glass House, the site of the hen party weekend. Flashbacks show Nora in the hospital, where she's recovering from an accident that she can't quite recall and wonders whose blood is on her hands. From the catty conversations at the party, secrets from Nora and Clare's past emerge, particularly relating to Nora's former love, James Cooper. Ware does a competent job ratcheting up the suspense, but the revelations aren't as exciting as the buildup.
Customer Reviews
A must read for thriller enthusiasts
Well worth the money and read. Great character building and a page-turning plot!
In a dark dark wood
Good enough read but totally predictable. Easy to guess at who gets killed, who did it, and who was blamed.
In a dark,dark wood
Kept me guessing, quite a good plot.