In a Dark, Dark Wood

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What to expect

Someone's getting married. Someone's getting murdered.

In a dark, dark wood

Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years. Not since Nora walked out of school one day and never went back.

There was a dark, dark house

Until, out of the blue, an invitation to Clare’s hen do arrives. Is this a chance for Nora to finally put her past behind her?

And in the dark, dark house there was a dark, dark room

But something goes wrong. Very wrong.

And in the dark, dark room....

Some things can’t stay secret for ever.

Critics Review

A slickly plotted, whip smart thriller - genuinely chilling and totally compulsive
Sunday Mirror, Book of the Week
[A] chilling psychological thriller...a tense, claustrophobic marriage of secrets, tequila shots and shotguns
Sunday Express
If the premise might be the sort that Agatha Christie would have toyed with had she been a 21st-century graduate, Ware’s analysis of the power-games some women revel in – and the toxicity in the undertow of some female friendships – is more reminiscent of Sophie Hannah, Christobel Kent, or even Gillian Flynn and Harriet Lane
Independent
You won’t be able to put down this creepy page-turner
Closer
Thrilling, gripping & well-written
Metro, Book of the Week
Toxic friendships, an isolated house, a dark snowy wood... Everyone's worst nightmare, and the perfect ingredients for this tense, terrifying novel
Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
This is one of the hottest crime debuts around, one that does for friendship what Gone Girl did for marriage
Netgalley
So gripping. So glad my hen do days are behind me. It’s going to be huge
Tamar Cohen, author of Dying for Christmas and The Broken
Ruth Ware has written an exciting, and in fact amazing book that never stops circling around behind the reader and clapping its cold hands over her eyes
Peter Straub, NYT bestselling author of Ghost Story and A Dark Matter
I raced through this, totally unable to put it down. It’s gripping from start to finish: slick plotting, sharp twists and a pitch-perfect understanding of the many unique ways in which female friends hurt one another. Dark, smart and compulsive
Nicci Cloke, author of Lay Me Down

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