One Dark Night
A Novel
-
- $279.00
-
- $279.00
Descripción editorial
When a body is found the day after Halloween, a small British community must reckon with its past and the dangers lurking in its present in this spine-tingling novel from “not to be missed” (Hayley Scrivener, author of Dirt Creek) author Hannah Richell.
On Halloween, a group of teenage students meet in the woods near Sally in the Wood, a road steeped in local lore and rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered girl. By the end of the night, one student will be dead.
Rachel, the school guidance counselor, is trying to keep a handle on her increasingly distant teenaged daughter, Ellie, while students and parents panic and mourn. Her ex-husband and detective Ben, dealing with a personal crisis of his own, has concerns about his daughter’s safety as he investigates the death. Meanwhile, Ellie is keeping secrets from both her parents, including one about where she was that night.
Told from multiple perspectives and with Hannah Richell’s distinct “atmospheric and ever-twisting” (Emylia Hall, author of the Shell House Detective Mysteries) prose, One Dark Night is a white-knuckled and suspenseful thriller about urban legends, privilege, and how the past continues to haunt us.
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.
