Bonfire: The debut thriller from the star of Jessica Jones - Hardcover

Ritter, Krysten

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786331020 ISBN 13: 9781786331021

Publisher: Hutchinson, 2017

Synopsis

Should you ever go back?

It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.

But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’ biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends—just before Kaycee disappeared for good.

Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as Abby tries to find out what really happened to Kaycee, she unearths an even more disturbing secret—a ritual called “The Game,” which will threaten the reputations, and lives, of the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.

With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote, rural town of just five claustrophobic miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of the question: can you ever outrun your past?

About this title

About the Author

KRYSTEN RITTER is well known for her starring roles in the award winning Netflix original series, Jessica Jones, and cult favourite, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, as well as her pivotal role on AMC's Breaking Bad. Ritter's work on film includes Big Eyes, Listen Up Philip, Life Happens, Confessions of a Shopaholic and She's Out of My League. She is the founder of Silent Machine, a production company that aims to highlight complex female protagonists. Ritter and her dog Mikey split their time between New York and Los Angeles.

Review

"In Abby Williams Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroin...An excellent debut" * The Times * "The plot is packed with suspense and moves at a cracking pace. This portrait of small- town life by Breaking Bad and Jessica Jones actress Ritter is spot on. Abby makes a terrific, kickass heroine who you'll root for all the way" * Daily Mail * "A first-rate mystery resplendent with shadowy scenery, a tight plot and a lead character that is both fragile and strong" * Washington Post * "I burned through Krysten Ritter's hugely accomplished debut. Bonfire is dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable." * Ruth Ware, bestselling author of IN A DARK, DARK WOOD and THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 * "Bonfire is a stone-cold stunner-the writing is dazzling, the suspense is creeping, and the story of a woman returning home to face her past is brimming with emotion and truth. An extraordinary debut from a major talent." -- Blake Crouch, New York Times bestselling author of DARK MATTER "An increasingly dark debut from the star of Jessica Jones" * Glamour * "Dark but compulsively readable" * Image Magazine * "Abby's voice captivates from the beginning and sustains throughout...Ritter ramps up the unreliability factor and keeps readers guessing with hairpin twists that shift the blame" * The Irish Times * "A compulsive novel" * Grazia * "This is a dark and gripping book that demands to be read in one sitting" * Culture Fly * "A rather splendid legal and psychological thriller debut from an unexpected source... this a debut of note" -- Maxim Jabukowski * Crime Time * "A phenomenal, haunting debut" -- Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl "A compelling psychological thriller" * Harper's Bazaar *

Edition details

• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786331020
• ISBN 13: 9781786331021
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288