Description
In the drought-stricken Appalachian town of Harper’s Creek, Anna Maybourne is trying to rebuild her life while caring for her grandmother, Evelyn, whose dementia is punctuated by unsettling warnings that “a girl died here.” As the anniversary of two infamous murders approaches, Anna’s curiosity draws her into the town’s buried history—and into a web of suspicion involving its loners, lawmen, and respected citizens. Haunted by a trauma of her own and increasingly unsure whether Evelyn’s ramblings are delusions or clues, Anna finds the past pressing dangerously into the present. A slow-burning, claustrophobic psychological thriller steeped in family secrets, collective fear, memory, and paranoia, this is a darkly unsettling mystery with the kind of mind-bending surprises that define Sarah Pinborough’s fiction.
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paperback
Flatiron Books
Published Jan 1, 2026
304 pages
ISBN: 9781250436689
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
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