From the author of "Gone Girl" comes a pacy thriller set for an upcoming TV adaptation starring Amy Adams. A journalist is sent back to her hometown to report on the abduction and murder of two girls, with her identification with the victims forcing her to confront the psychological conundrum of her own past in the town.
To say this is a terrific debut novel is really too mild ... [it is] a relentlessly creepy family saga. I found myself dreading the last thirty pages or so, but was helpless to stop turning them. Then, after the lights were out, the story just stayed there in my head, coiled and hissing, like a snake in a cave Stephen King