A Dark and Secret Place
A Dark and Secret Place
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Random House
Annotation: For fans of Kathleen Barber and Julia Heaberlin comes a chilling psychological suspense from award-winning author Jen Wi... more
 
Reviews: 2
Catalog Number: #358176
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 2021
Edition Date: 2021 Release Date: 06/08/21
Pages: 292 pages
ISBN: 1-643-85574-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-643-85574-5
Dewey: Fic
LCCN: 2021286730
Dimensions: 25 cm
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Fantasist Williams comes down to earth-well, somewhat closer to earth-in this tale of a disgraced journalist's search for the truth about her mother's suicide.It's been so long since Heather Evans has been close to her mother that she doesn't have a key to her house. Even if they'd been much closer, nothing could have prepared her for the double shock of learning that Colleen Evans killed herself after leaving behind a note addressed "To you both." Heather doesn't have any siblings. What unbearable secret led her mother to put an end to her life, and who else was she writing to? Searching for answers among Colleen's effects, Heather finds a cache of letters written by Michael Reave, a friend of Colleen's from the Fiddler's Mill commune in the 1970s who's been imprisoned for years as the Red Wolf responsible for a gruesome series of murders. The appearance of new victims of a copycat killer who's clearly made a close study of the Red Wolf leads DI Ben Parker to urge Heather to talk with Michael Reave, who's oddly eager to talk to her as well. But Reave, alternately reticent and rambling, is far from eager to tell Heather what either she or Parker most wants to know. After an anonymous note informs her, "I know what you are, and I think you do too," Heather, more anxious than ever to get to the bottom of the mystery after her sudden estrangement from Parker, ventures with her old friend teacher Nikki Appiah onto the grounds of Fiddler's Mill, where the pace of events will rapidly quicken.A fairy tale for adults with strong stomachs.

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Reading Level: 12.0
Interest Level: 9+

For fans of Kathleen Barber and Julia Heaberlin comes a chilling psychological suspense from award-winning author Jen Williams about a woman who discovers her late mother had a decades-long secret correspondence with a serial killer, begging the question: how well do we know our own family and even ourselves?

When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery--stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The "Red Wolf," as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over twenty years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his innocence. The police have had no reason to listen, yet Heather isn't the only one to have cause to re-examine the murders. The body of a young woman has just been found, dismembered and placed inside a tree, the corpse planted with flowers. Just as the Red Wolf once did.

What did Heather's mother know? Why did she kill herself? And with the monstrous Red Wolf safely locked inside a maximum security prison, who is stalking young women now? Teaming up with DI Ben Parker, Heather hopes to get some answers for herself and for the newest victims of this depraved murderer. Yet to do that, she must speak to Michael Reave herself, and expose herself to truths she may not be ready to face. Something dark is walking in the woods, and it knows her all too well.


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