She makes you feel like you are holding hands with her characters-breathing the same night air, shivering beside them, seeing the world through their vulnerable and empathetic eyes. Laura McHugh expertly delivers a harrowing tale of a world where little is what it first appears to be.' -Ron Rash, New York Times bestselling author of Serena ' What’s Done in Darkness is a beautifully paced story of a young woman’s courage to confront, both psychologically and by novel’s end literally, an evil that might again entrap her. Compulsively, propulsively readable, it never loses sight of what's really at stake for its characters - or its readers.' -Laura Lippman, New York Times bestselling author of Lady in the Lake WHAT'S DONE IN DARKNESS is timely, but more importantly, it's a deeply empathetic look at a community and place that are all too easy to stereotype. 'Laura McHugh is already on everyone's short list of crime writers to watch for, someone who just goes from strength to strength. Convinced that her case is connected to the strikingly similar disappearance of another young girl, Farrow wants Sarabeth's help, and he'll do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means dragging her back to the last place she wants to go-the hills and hollers of home, to face her estranged family and all her darkest fears. One good thing arises from the horrific ordeal: a chance to leave the Ozarks and start a new life.įive years later, Sarabeth is struggling to keep her past buried when investigator Nick Farrow calls. She's all but given up on escaping the farm when a masked man appears one stifling summer morning and snatches her out of the cornfield.Ī week after her abduction, she's found alongside a highway in a bloodstained dress -alive -but her family treats her like she's tainted, and there's little hope of finding her captor, who kept Sarabeth blindfolded in the dark the entire time, never uttering a word. Seventeen-year-old Sarabeth has become increasingly rebellious since her parents found God and moved their family to a remote Arkansas farmstead where she's forced to wear long dresses, follow strict rules, and grow her hair down to her waist.

⭑ Harlan Coben's pick for Best Summer Thriller on the Today Showīlood ties and buried secrets draw a young woman back into the nightmare of her past to save a missing girl, unaware of what awaits her in the darkness. ⭑ An ELLE MAGAZINE Best Books of Summer pick ⭑ An Amazon Editors' Choice for Best Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

⭑ One of 2021’s Best Beach Reads-OPRAH DAILY

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