Dark and Shallow Lies

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What to expect

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

‘AN INTENSE AND BROODING THRILLER ’ – THE OBSERVER

A intensely romantic and atmospheric thriller for young adults, full of twists and turns with a simmering supernatural undercurrent. Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen McManus and Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing

When seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana – the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the “Psychic Capital of the World” – she knows it will be different from past years: her childhood best friend Elora went missing several months earlier and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappears.

Grey can’t believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something—her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.

When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou – a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town’s bloody history – Grey realizes that La Cachette’s past is far more present and dangerous than she’d ever understood. She doesn’t know who she can trust. In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent—and La Cachette’s dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.

Critics Review

u2018Dark and Shallow Lies oozes atmosphere and dread [u2026] An intense and brooding thriller laced with the supernatural and killer twists.u2019 u2013 Observer

u2018A page-turning thriller . . .u2019 u2013 IRISH TIMES

u201cDonu2019t even try to resistu2014Ginny Myers Sain will lure you into the spellbinding world of the deep Louisiana bayou with this riveting missing girl mystery populated by a bewitching cast of characters; spun to life in lush, atmospheric prose; and teeming with a dark mythology that is part folklore, part psychic mysticism, and entirely compelling.u201d u2014Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos

u201cHaunting and arresting, this is one stunning debut. Ginny Myers Sain has written a totally engrossing small-town mystery about what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets.u201d u2014Jessica Goodman, bestselling author of They Wish They Were Us

u201cEnchanting and chilling at once, youu2019ll instantly get sucked into this atmospheric tale of kindred spirits brimming with secrets that could tear them apart. Ginny Myers Sainu2019s haunting, lush, lyrical prose will keep you captivated till the end.u201d u2014Diana Urban, author of All Your Twisted Secrets

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