Dark and Shallow Lies

In "Where the Crawdads Sing," a young adult thriller set in Louisiana, Grey investigates the disappearance of her childhood best friend Elora, uncovering secrets and lies in the town's psychic community.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 02 September 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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"AN INTENSE AND BROODING THRILLER" - THE OBSERVER

A captivating and atmospheric thriller for young adults, brimming with twists and turns and a simmering supernatural undercurrent. It is a perfect choice for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen McManus, and Delia Owens.

When seventeen-year-old Grey visits La Cachette, Louisiana, for her annual visit, she knows it will be different from previous years. Her childhood best friend, Elora, went missing several months earlier, and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappeared. Grey cannot believe that Elora vanished into thin air, just as she cannot believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. However, as she delves deeper into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everyone 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.

As 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 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 tear the town apart.

Weight: 304g
Dimension: 212 x 155 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780008494780