Better Reading Preview: One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

Better Reading Preview: One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

One night in the woods A party gone wrong A body discovered at sunrise

He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress …

Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, her body carefully arranged at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into turmoil.

With a teenage daughter of his own, police detective Ben Chase knows how high the stakes are. Was the girl the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does her death represent something more sinister and ritualistic?

As the investigation unfolds and the noose tightens around Chase’s own family, the only thing anyone can be sure of is that no one is safe until this violent killer is caught.

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Your Preview Verdict: One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

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7 January 2025

Your Preview Verdict: One Dark Night by Hannah Richell

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              Publisher details

              One Dark Night
              Author
              Hannah Richell
              Publisher
              Simon and Schuster
              Genre
              Fiction
              Released
              01 January, 2025
              ISBN
              9781761421761

              Synopsis

              One night in the woods A party gone wrong A body discovered at sunrise

              He murdered her at the folly on their wedding day, left her body for the crows. They say she haunts the woods now, a girl in a white dress …

              Everyone in the small town of Thorncombe knows the tales of the haunted woods where the birds don’t sing and a girl in a white dress roams, luring people to their deaths. But when a girl in white is found dead the morning after Halloween, her body carefully arranged at the bottom of an old stone folly, the community is thrown into turmoil.

              With a teenage daughter of his own, police detective Ben Chase knows how high the stakes are. Was the girl the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does her death represent something more sinister and ritualistic?

              As the investigation unfolds and the noose tightens around Chase’s own family, the only thing anyone can be sure of is that no one is safe until this violent killer is caught.

              A tense, clever and claustrophobic thriller where no one is who they seem and the danger lies just out of sight.

              Hannah Richell
              About the author

              Hannah Richell

              After the birth of her first child, Hannah Richell began writing as a guilty pleasure in stolen moments during her day. Her debut novel Secrets of the Tides was selected as a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and was shortlisted for the Debut Fiction Award at the 2013 Australian Indie Book Awards.

              Books by Hannah Richell

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              1. Tianne Shaw says:

                It is almost 4pm NSW time and form is not yet open

              2. Jeanene Gustincic says:

                Love this author’s novels so would be thrilled to win her latest.