Girl in Snow

A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller. Danya Kukafka’s misfit characters are richly drawn, her prose is both elegant and eerie – this is an incredibly accomplished debut -- Paula Hawkins, author of The <i>Girl on the Train</i> and <i>Into the Water </i> Stark, utterly compulsive with a compelling, unique writing style. This thriller blew me away -- Kate Hamer, author of <i>The Girl in the Red Coat</i> A sensational debut - great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended -- Lee Child, bestselling author of the <i>Jack Reacher </i>series A dark and elegant thriller set in small-town America * Mail on Sunday * A creepy, psychological drama set in a snowbound Colorado high school * GQ * The beautiful writing, perfect pacing and gripping plot made Girl In Snow a standout for me. -- Joanne Finney, books editor * Good Housekeeping * Captivating * Marie Claire * With a knack for writing oh-so-real teenage characters and underline-worthy prose, [Kukafka] weaves a tale of voyeurism and obsession that's impossible to put down * W Magazine * Kuafka’s bewitching first novel spins a spell of mournful confessions around a Twin Peaks-like centerpiece. In [her] capable hands, villainy turns out to be everywhere and nowhere, a DNA that could be found under the fingernails of everybody’s hands * New York Times (Editor’s Choice) * An intricate, seductive murder mystery, in which a single awful crime exposes conflicts and traumas in an entire community . . . Girl in Snow is not just an impressive debut but one of the best literary mysteries to come along in some time * BookPage * A haunting, lyrical novel about love, loss, and terror . . . The world Kukafka so masterfully creates is suspenseful and electrifying; I was willing to follow her wherever she took me' -- Anton DiSclafani, author of <i>The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls </i> ‘A propulsive mystery set in a suburban community marked by unsettling voyeurism. Danya Kukafka patiently reveals layers of her characters’ inner lives – their ugliness and vulnerabilities – in prose that sparkles and wounds. I couldn’t put this one down’ -- Brit Bennett, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Mothers</i> Elegiac and involving . . . engagingly told . . . its endearing characters’ struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done * Wall Street Journal * Written with raw immediacy, each character is complex, aching and ashamed, for different reasons . . . a quietly taut thriller concerned with the secrets we keep from our closest loved-ones and even from ourselves . . . keeps hold of the reader long after the final denouement * Shelf Awareness * This brooding and intense thriller will plunge readers into a dark world they may not want to enter - but they may be unable to tear themselves free * Booklist *