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#1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell brings her "thrilling, chilling" (Chris Whitaker) suspense to this shocking new thriller about a lost dog, a missing woman, and a house of long buried secrets.
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate one May afternoon when a small white dog appears. The teenaged girl that had been staying nearby with the dog is nowhere to be found, and Jane decides to return it to his registered owner hours away in London, in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead. But when Jane arrives, she is immediately unsettled—because she has a dark history with this house.
The man who answers the door tells her the dog, Hugo, must have been stolen from the Heath, but Jane very much doubts that is true. Through the window, she catches a glimpse of a haunted-looking woman, not the missing girl she'd hoped to find.
"By slowly revealing past and present simultaneously, Jewell keeps the mystery fresh as she plays with Gothic tropes and the timeless imagery of 'a house of horrors' embodying human sin. She doesn't flinch from exploring the depths of depravity in this house—and its humans. A haunting, timeless exploration of the evil men do—and the imprint it leaves behind." —Kirkus Reviews
"With a shrewd command of the narrative, Jewell turns a chance encounter into a disturbing treatise on the past's ability to assert itself in ways both unwelcome and unlikely...A pitch-black spine-tingler." —Publishers Weekly
"Jewell is one of the best writers of psychological thrillers, and this one spectacularly showcases her gifts for character design and plotting. We get the sense that the author was having an especially good time crafting this one, too, and very much enjoying the agonizing suspense she's putting us through...Magnificent." —Booklist
"Deliciously dark, devilishly addictive and beautifully written. This gripping, twisted tale will keep you guessing until the end. Nobody writes like Lisa Jewell." —Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author of My Husband's Wife
"Twisty, twisted and oh so dark. Lisa Jewell once again proves herself a master of suspense." —Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of With a Vengeance
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Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including Don't Let Him In, None of This Is True, The Family Upstairs, and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her novels have sold more than fifteen million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into over thirty languages.
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