Midnight is the Darkest Hour
TikTok made me buy it! A brand new spine-chilling small town thriller for fans of Twilight and True Detective
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- 16,00 kr
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- 16,00 kr
Publisher Description
Twilight meets True Detective in this creepy Southern Gothic thriller, from TikTok sensation Ashley Winstead.
'Unleashes the trapped scream of being a young woman in the world.' Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
'One of the most gasp-inducing endings I've ever read.' Clare Mackintosh
Beware of the dark. You might like what you find...
Ruth Collier has always felt like an outsider, even as her father rains fire and brimstone from the church pulpit. In Bottom Springs, his word is as good as law.
But there are things the townspeople fear more than God, like the Low Man, a vampiric figure said to kill sinners in their beds on moonless nights.
When a skull is found deep in the swamp, a hunt for the Low Man begins. Suspicion turns to Everett – Ruth's oldest friend, with a dark past. As Ruth and Everett grow closer, Ruth begins to unearth the town's secrets, determined to discover the truth.
But as the line between good and evil grows ever thin, how far will Ruth go to save the person she loves most?
'Blurs the line between good and evil, love and revenge, and the inherent desire to please our parents while struggling to find ourselves.' Stacy Willingham
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Winstead (The Last Housewife) serves up a sharp meditation on feminism and religious oppression in this atmospheric Louisiana-set thriller. Ruth Cornier, the independent-minded daughter of Pastor James Cornier, is the sole librarian in the small town of Bottom Springs, who takes particular pleasure in works of heretical fiction, including the Twilight novels. One afternoon, Ruth is devastated to learn that a human skull has been found in the swamp next to the library. When Ruth was 17, she was almost raped in the same swamp by itinerant worker Renard Michaels. Ruth's friend Everett, a local outcast, intervened, and Michaels was killed in the ensuing fight and his body left to sink into the swamp. When the remains are identified as those of another man, Ruth's worst fears are momentarily averted, but then a bigger problem emerges: might Bottom Springs have a killer on its hands? Alternating between past and present, Winstead movingly fleshes out Ruth and Everett's friendship without sacrificing pace or surprise as the body count rises. Evocative prose (the setting sun is described as "fighting death, reaching out with grasping fingers of orange and rose against the falling twilight") is a major plus. Fans of Michael Koryta's Southern gothic novels, including The Cypress House, will be enchanted.
