In a Dark, Dark Wood

Author(s): Ruth Ware

Crime

Someone's getting married. Someone's getting murdered. In a dark, dark wood Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back. There was a dark, dark house Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare's hen do arrives. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her? And in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room But something goes wrong. Very wrong. And in the dark, dark room...Some things can't stay secret for ever.


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Someone's getting married. Someone's getting murdered. The next big thing in crime fiction - we've had toxic marriages, this is about toxic friendships

"I raced through this, totally unable to put it down. It's gripping from start to finish: slick plotting, sharp twists and a pitch-perfect understanding of the many unique ways in which female friends hurt one another. Dark, smart and compulsive" -- Nicci Cloke, author of Lay Me Down "Toxic friendships, an isolated house, a dark snowy wood... Everyone's worst nightmare, and the perfect ingredients for this tense, terrifying novel" -- Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go "So gripping. So glad my hen do days are behind me. It's going to be huge" -- Tamar Cohen, author of Dying for Christmas and The Broken "Ruth Ware has written an exciting, and in fact amazing book that never stops circling around behind the reader and clapping its cold hands over her eyes" -- Peter Straub, NYT bestselling author of Ghost Story and A Dark Matter "I raced through this, totally unable to put it down. It's gripping from start to finish: slick plotting, sharp twists and a pitch-perfect understanding of the many unique ways in which female friends hurt one another. Dark, smart and compulsive" -- Nicci Cloke, author of Lay Me Down

Ruth Ware grew up in Lewes, in Sussex. After graduating from Manchester University she moved to Paris, before settling in North London. She has worked as a waitress, a bookseller, a teacher of English as a foreign language and a press officer. Married, with two small children, In a Dark, Dark Wood is her debut thriller.

General Fields

  • : 9781846559594
  • : Vintage
  • : Harvill Secker
  • : July 2015
  • : United Kingdom
  • : June 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Ruth Ware
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 368