She Lies in Wait: A Novel - Hardcover

Lodge, Gytha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1984817353 ISBN 13: 9781984817358

Publisher: Random House, 2019

Synopsis

Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust? A teen girl is missing after a night of partying; thirty years later, the discovery of her body reopens a cold case in “a scorching portrait of friendship and its betrayal.” (Nicci French).
 
“This enjoyably chilling suspense tale . . . conveys both the thrills and the dangers of being a teenager on the brink of adult independence.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
On a scorching July night in 1983, a group of teenagers goes camping in the forest. When they wake in the morning the youngest of their group, Aurora Jackson, has disappeared. An exhaustive investigation is launched, but no trace of the teenager is ever found.
 
Thirty years later, Aurora’s body is unearthed in a hideaway that only the six friends knew about, and Jonah Sheens is put in charge of solving the long-cold case. Back in 1983, as a young cop in their small town, he had known the teenagers—including Aurora—personally, even before taking part in the search. Now he’s determined to finally get to the truth of what happened that night. Sheens’s investigation brings the members of the camping party back to the forest, where they will be confronted once again with the events that left one of them dead and all of them profoundly changed forever.
 
This searing, psychologically captivating novel marks the arrival of a dazzling new talent, and the start of a new series featuring Detective Chief Inspector Jonah Sheens.
 
Praise for She Lies in Wait

“A novel that literally makes you hold your breath then gasp out loud.”—Val McDermid

“She Lies in Wait is an atmospheric, deeply satisfying, well-written mystery whose resolution rings true after lots of false leads and blind alleys. A remarkably adept first novel. One hopes there will be many more to come.”—Daily Herald

“The mystery intrigues and twists, offering enough red herrings and moments of police procedural to please fans of the genre.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“What a marvel! A corkscrew-twisty, knife-sharp thriller—yet it doubles as a tender ode to loss and longing. Prepare to be haunted.”—A. J. Finn, author of the New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window

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Review

An Amazon Best Book of January 2019: She Lies in Wait is the perfect mix of police procedural, cold case, and which-one-of-us-done-it (that last is not strictly speaking a thing, but it should be). Six teenagers go camping in a nearby forest. They’re the in-crowd of their school; the kids for whom the future looks bright. But one of them, Aurora, the younger sister of queen bee Topaz, doesn’t make it out of the forest. Thirty years after her disappearance, a body is found, and the long-cold case is suddenly active again. As a young cop in 1983, Jonah Sheens knew the teenagers; now he’s put in charge of solving the case. Each one of the friends, even Aurora’s sister, is under the lens again, this time as suspects in her murder. Loyalties are tested, old lies come back to haunt, and suspicion causes nerves to fray. As Sheens and team work their way through the lies, the dead ends, and the red herrings, readers will find themselves caught up in this intricate thriller. —Vannessa Cronin

About the Author

Gytha Lodge studied English at Cambridge University and received an MA in creative writing from the University of East Anglia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1984817353
• ISBN 13: 9781984817358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368