Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2023
Into the Dark is the new dark and gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins about revenge,greed,ambition and the true cost of friendship.
The place: Seawings,a beautiful Art Deco home overlooking the sweep of the bay in Midtown-on-Sea.
The crime: The gilded Holden family - Piper and Gray and their two teenage children,Riva and Artie - has vanished from the house without a trace.
The detective: DS Saul Anguish,brilliant but with a dark past,treads the narrow line between light and shade.
One late autumn morning,Piper's best friend arrives at Seawings to discover an eerie scene - the kettle is still warm,all the family's phones are charging on the worktop,the cars are in the garage. But the house is deserted.
In fifteen-year-old Riva Holden's bedroom,scrawled across the mirror in blood,are three words:
MakeThemStop.
What happens next
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781529040173Number of pages: 352Weight: 236 gDimensions: 197 x 131 x 22 mm
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Praise for Fiona Cummins:
'Fiona Cummins evokes the dark arts of journalism and politics with an insider's relish in this rich,intricately woven novel of childhood crime and adult redemption. I finished it with my heart in my mouth. Highly recommended'- Louise Candlish on When I Was Ten
'Grips like a vice'- Val McDermid on When I Was Ten
Absorbing,tense and beautifully paced'- Daily Mail on When I Was Ten
Dark,creepy and ultimately compassionate... a chilling look at the consequences of a childhood gone wrong'- J. P. Delaney on When I Was Ten
'Utterly compelling; a true just-one-more-chapter thriller'- Clare Mackintosh on When I Was Ten
'Creepy as hell and kept me guessing to the very end'- Ian Rankin on The Neighbour
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