Elizabeth Rigbey Boeken

Dense woodland. Twisting paths. It�s easy to lose your way in the wilderness� The rugged Rocky Mountains are a place some go to hide inside, some to escape into and others to hunt in. Dr Matt Seleckis has never been one for the woods: he remembers his childhood vacations there with his mother and father � and the looming threat of an unexplained death � Now Matt lives in the mountains� shadow, in Utah with his wife and young son. Yet the prospect of a hunting trip alone with his father is bringing back dark, unwelcome memories � of a certain vacation, of his beloved parents. And of a hushed-up tragedy that he�s sure concerns him. But with the arrival of these unsettling memories comes the creeping realisation that in nature, death for the unwary lies around every corner. And in the woods, it�s easy to take a wrong turn �

A thriller writer of phenomenal talent comes to Michael Joseph with her exceptional new novel. Last year Lucy lost her baby son. Frozen by the loss, she has barely recovered when her father is murdered. She suspects it might be suicide, but her tentative inquiries meet a hard wall of resistance as her husband Scott and sister Jane close ranks. Lucy cannot shake off the feeling that they are lying to her - is the drowning of her father connected with the death of her baby? And when Lucy starts sorting through her father's possessions, a truly horrifying discovery throws the world she always thought she knew into chaos...