One Dark Night
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
The girl in white was supposed to be a ghost. Then her body was found at the bottom of the folly.
Everyone in Thorncombe knows the legend of the murdered bride who haunts the woods—a girl in a white dress who lures the unwary to their deaths. Most dismiss it as folklore.
Until Halloween.
The morning after a party in the haunted woods, a teenage girl is discovered dead. Dressed in white. Her body carefully arranged beneath an ancient stone folly.
Detective Ben Chase knows the stakes couldn't be higher. With a teenage daughter of his own, he refuses to believe this was simply a party gone wrong. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a web of secrets, lies and simmering tensions hidden beneath the surface of the close-knit town.
Was the girl the victim of a cruel prank that turned deadly? Or is someone using Thorncombe's darkest legend to disguise a far more sinister crime?
As the investigation closes in on the truth, the danger creeps ever closer to Chase's own family. And with a killer still at large, no one is safe.
A gripping, atmospheric thriller packed with twists, secrets and heart-stopping suspense, where nothing is quite as it seems—and the truth may be more terrifying than the legend.
'Thrilling and page-turning!' — Sally Hepworth
'The new master of the atmospheric thriller' — Ali Lowe
'Delivers suspense until the very end.' — Books+Publishing
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.
