In the Blind

A dead girl in the marshes. A town half-drowned in secrets. 'A gifted storyteller' Maggie Shipstead 'Everything I want in a book … with the perfect conclusion I never saw coming' Stacy Willingham Life has forced Kate back to her childhood home on the Carolina coast, a place she once couldn't wait to leave — a quiet stretch of marsh and moss that's become, decades later, a coveted and cloistered neighborhood. When a girl is found dead in an old hunting blind, the town is shaken — but Kate is something closer to consumed. She can't look away from the case, can't keep herself from following the girl's trail. And the more she wades into the dead girl's story, the more she disturbs her own, until the line between the two mysteries — one new, one twenty years buried — starts to blur. Twisting and beautifully written, In the Blind is a mystery about the answers we never stop searching for, and the truths we can't let ourselves see — perfect for readers of The God of the Woods, The Paper Palace, Where the Crawdads Sing, and All the Colours of the Dark. Exquisitely atmospheric, twisting and beautiful, this marshland literary mystery is perfect for readers of The God of the Woods, The Paper Palace, Where the Crawdads Sing or All the Colours of the Dark. PRAISE FOR LYDIA FITZPATRICK ‘A cross-cultural coming-of-age story that breaks your heart in the best way’ Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle ‘As delicious as it is dazzling – a mystery I was tempted to read in one sitting … Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely observed’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists ‘This intricate, capacious, startlingly inventive novel is so vivid, and rings so true, that its characters have taken up permanent residence in my imagination’ R.O.