Girl in Snow
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A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick, from the author of Notes on an Execution.
Winner of a Hearst Big Book Award: Good Housekeeping's Crime Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger.
Intoxicating and intense, Danya Kukafka's Girl in Snow is a compelling mystery set in small-town America. A story which focusing on those affected by the crime, rather than the crime itself.
'A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller. Danya Kukafka’s misfit characters are richly drawn, her prose is both elegant and eerie' – Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train
Who are you when no one is watching?
When beloved high school student Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched – not the boy who loved her too much, not the girl who wanted her perfect life, not the police officer assigned to investigate. In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three unforgettable characters – Cameron, Jade, and Russ – must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both.
‘Dark and elegant’ – Mail on Sunday
‘A creepy, psychological drama’ – GQ
‘A haunting debut’ – Stylist
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Kukafka's debut is set in 2005, unspooling in the days after 15-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found murdered at a playground in her Colorado suburb. Suspicion immediately falls on Cameron Whitley, an artsy loner who spends his nights wandering the neighborhood, watching Lucinda and her family from their front yard. But there are other suspects, too, like Ivan, the ex-con school janitor, and Zap, Lucinda's ex-boyfriend. Consisting of alternating chapters following Cameron; officer Russ Fletcher, who was once work partners with Cameron's estranged policeman father; and Jade Dixon-Burns, a gloomy teen dabbling in the occult and aspiring to be a writer, the novel digs into each character's history while offering up a fair number of red herrings regarding the identity of the murderer. These histories occasionally distract from the mystery of Lucinda's killer, yet Kukafka's clever narrative tricks, like Jade's tendency to imagine conversations in the form of screenplays and Cameron's inability to remember large swaths of time around the murder, propel the narrative forward. And while the novel employs a full checklist of teen tropes throughout, from abusive parents to fractured love triangles, there is enough narrative muscle to compel the reader to stick with it until the end.
