The Night Hunter
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3.9 • 11 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
“A twisty, compulsive read - I couldn’t put it down.”
—Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The Sanatorium
In a remote corner of the South African bush, two sisters reunite to bury a family secret once and for all, but when they’re stranded among the wild animals, they find a predator far more dangerous waiting for them in the shadows. . . .
When their conservationist mother passes, Danielle and her estranged sister Grace must return to their isolated family house nestled within a wild-game reserve. While Grace, their mother’s favorite, clings to nostalgia, only Danielle carries the knowledge of her final request: “Find the storehouse . . . Burn everything inside.”
To ease the pain of their homecoming—and the tension between them—each sister invites two friends on the two-day journey into the bush. What starts as a safari adventure, turns into a nightmare when one of them is murdered the first morning at the campsite. In the chaos that follows, they crash their vehicle, stranding them, with no way to call for help.
Now, with dwindling supplies and only one rifle, Danielle must lead them on foot across miles of merciless savannah. They have days of walking ahead…if they survive that long. As the group navigates land where every rustle could mean death, a truth emerges: someone is sabotaging their escape.
Breathtaking and tense, The Night Hunter maps the treacherous terrain of family duty and loyalty as the two sisters confront what they’ve spent years trying to forget.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Family drama can be as deadly as an apex predator in this thriller set in the South African wilderness. When their mother dies, sisters Grace and Danielle travel to her large, remote game reserve to see to her affairs. Each brings a friend (along with a fair amount of emotional baggage), but the trip turns darker than they ever imagined. While following their mother’s unsettling instructions to find the reserve’s isolated storehouse and burn it down, the group are soon besieged by events that leave one of them dead and the survivors stranded on the open savanna, miles from civilization. Natalie Moss cultivates an absolutely nerve-shattering sense of dread, as natural dangers and human malice seem to be competing for the chance to end all of their lives. A taut battle for survival follows, with a trove of family secrets unfurling along the way. If you’re looking for truly immersive suspense, pick up The Night Hunter.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Two sisters reunite on a deadly South African safari in Moss's outstanding debut. When Danielle Johnson was 12, she and her younger sister, Grace, were attacked by a hyena outside their home in South Africa. Danielle fled and returned to find Grace alive, but with her left arm severely mauled. Decades later, Danielle works for a law firm while Grace has devoted herself to environmental activism, following in the footsteps of the girls' recently deceased mother, Elizabeth, the former COO of a foundation devoted to protecting rhinos from poachers. After Elizabeth's death, the sisters have a tense reunion to discuss what to do with their isolated childhood home. To relieve the tension, they embark on a safari in a private game reserve, accompanied by Danielle's boyfriend, Grace's love interest, a friend of Danielle's, and a guide. When one member of their group is stabbed to death by an unknown assailant, the sisters' old rivalries flare as they try to determine if someone in their party is the killer. Moss plays scrupulously fair with readers and pulls few punches en route to a shocking but satisfying finale. Brutal and shrewd in equal measure, this scintillating closed-circle thriller marks Moss as an author to watch.
