PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
LAURA MCHUGH's short fiction has been published in Confrontation and Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. She lives in Missouri, and this is her first novel.
It is a long time since I have read a debut as impressive as Laura McHugh's The Weight of Blood. It is a chilling portrait of a small town in the Ozarks where violent men are protected and young women vanish. -- Joan Smith The Sunday Times One of the best thrillers of the summer and one of the best books of the year... Beautifully written and cleverly plotted with memorable, deftly drawn character, The Weight of Blood is an unmissable debut. Sunday Express The Weight of Blood is an outstanding debut Sunday Times excellent debut The Times Very accomplished technically, and a scary psychological study of an introverted rural community Independent
