In a Dark, Dark Wood marks the launch of a major new star in psychological women’s fiction, Ruth Ware. With all the commercial appeal and literary quality of Sophie Hannah, SJ Watson and Tana French, combined with an irresistible premise, this is a must read for lovers of crime and women’s fiction.

Nora Shaw wakes up in a hospital room with her head bandaged and a police guard outside her door. Are they there to protect her or arrest her? Nora is worried. Worried because her first thought is not “what’s happened to me?” but “what have I done?’

Nora, a writer in her mid-twenties, has been invited to the hen do of an old school friend. Nora hasn’t seen Clare in years but she’s looking forward to a chance to reconnect, even if she’s surprised not to be invited to the wedding itself.

But something goes wrong. A drinking game at the hen do reveals dark secrets in Nora’s past, a storm cuts off the power to the cottage and then an Ouija board has a warning for them all: there is a murderer inside the house…

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