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One Dark Night

Hannah Richell

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Simon & Schuster
01 January 2025

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- When a popular young student from the local private school is found dead at the foot of a folly the day after Halloween, the people in the nearby town know the haunted woods of legend have claimed another victim. The police detective called in to investigate has a daughter of the same age, and his estranged wife is a teacher in the school, so he feels the pressure to determine whether it was accident or murder. Of course there are suspicious characters, lies being told and conflicting accounts, and is his daughter involved?

Most of the atmospheric narrative unfolds over the course of a few tense days, which adds to the pace of the telling. A superior mystery with believable characters. Lindy Lindy

One night in the woods ... A party gone wrong ... A body discovered at sunrise. He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress …


Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, her body carefully arranged at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into turmoil.

With a teenage daughter of his own, police detective Ben Chase knows how high the stakes are. Was the girl the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does her death represent something more sinister and ritualistic?

As the investigation unfolds and the noose tightens around Chase’s own family, the only thing anyone can be sure of is that no one is safe until this violent killer is caught.

A tense, clever and claustrophobic thriller where no one is who they seem and the danger lies just out of sight.

Praise:

'The new master of the atmospheric thriller,' Ali Lowe

'delivers suspense until the very end,' Books+Publishing

 

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Imprint:   Simon & Schuster
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 153mm, 
ISBN:   9781761421761
ISBN 10:   176142176X
Pages:   432
Publication Date:  
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Hannah Richell was born in Kent, United Kingdom, and spent her childhood years in Buckinghamshire and Canada. After graduating from the University of Nottingham, she worked in the book publishing and film industries in both London and Sydney. She is a dual citizen of Great Britain and Australia, and currently lives in the southwest of England with her family. She is the author of several international bestsellers, such as The Search Party and One Dark Night. Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages. Find out more at HannahRichell.com. 

Reviews for One Dark Night

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- When a popular young student from the local private school is found dead at the foot of a folly the day after Halloween, the people in the nearby town know the haunted woods of legend have claimed another victim. The police detective called in to investigate has a daughter of the same age, and his estranged wife is a teacher in the school, so he feels the pressure to determine whether it was accident or murder. Of course there are suspicious characters, lies being told and conflicting accounts, and is his daughter involved?

Most of the atmospheric narrative unfolds over the course of a few tense days, which adds to the pace of the telling. A superior mystery with believable characters. Lindy Lindy





'Dark and twisty small-town noir at its very best—I couldn't look away!' -- <B>Pip Drysdale</B> 'Richell is an expert at drawing in the reader by building complex and genuine connections between her characters, enhanced by her ability to imbue her writing with stunning descriptions of both place and art ... Fans of Richell's previous novels and readers of Liane Moriarty, Sally Hepworth and Lucy Foley will find One Dark Night a perfectly balanced domestic-noir-cum-whodunit that delivers suspense until the very end.' * <B>Books+Publishing</B> *


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