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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780857527417
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Description:
All the Colours of the Dark meets Where the Crawdads Sing in this beautiful, propulsive thriller from the author of Sunday Times bestseller Tall Bones.
For fans of All the Colours of the Dark and Where the Crawdads Sing, a beautiful atmospheric thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
'Propulsive, bold and brutal...A truly atmospheric thriller.' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark
'Bewitching... thought provoking, character driven crime fiction.' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
'Sublime. The best thing I've read in ages.' Will Dean, bestselling author of The Chamber
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The Labasques aren't like other families.
Living in a shack out in the swamps, they scrape a living hunting down alligators just to get by. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are trouble-makers, outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn't want living on your doorstep.
So when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two rough-cut brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is Cutter's childhood friend, Loyal May, who has just returned home to care for her ageing mother.
Loyal left town at the age of 18, having betrayed everything she valued most. Now, there may be no way for her to find forgiveness, but there may be restitution, if she can find out what really d
ISBN: 9780857527417
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Description:
All the Colours of the Dark meets Where the Crawdads Sing in this beautiful, propulsive thriller from the author of Sunday Times bestseller Tall Bones.
For fans of All the Colours of the Dark and Where the Crawdads Sing, a beautiful atmospheric thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Tall Bones
THE TIMES BOOK OF THE MONTH
'Propulsive, bold and brutal...A truly atmospheric thriller.' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of All the Colours of the Dark
'Bewitching... thought provoking, character driven crime fiction.' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train
'Sublime. The best thing I've read in ages.' Will Dean, bestselling author of The Chamber
_______
The Labasques aren't like other families.
Living in a shack out in the swamps, they scrape a living hunting down alligators just to get by. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are trouble-makers, outcasts, the kind of people you wouldn't want living on your doorstep.
So when Cutter Labasque is found face down in the muddy swamp, no one seems to care, not even her two rough-cut brothers. The only person who questions the official verdict of suicide is Cutter's childhood friend, Loyal May, who has just returned home to care for her ageing mother.
Loyal left town at the age of 18, having betrayed everything she valued most. Now, there may be no way for her to find forgiveness, but there may be restitution, if she can find out what really d