Into The Dark (shortlisted For The 2023 Crime Novel Of The Year)

By (author) Cummins Fiona
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Big Little Lies meets Broadchurch in a dark and gripping crime thriller about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of friendship. For all those who enjoy Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty, Lucy Foley and Louise Candlish.
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Shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the Year 2023

Into the Dark is the gripping crime thriller from Fiona Cummins about revenge, greed, ambition and the true cost of friendship.

‘Complex. Inventive. Twisting. Unsettling’ – Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal

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 – have 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 radio is playing, 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:

Make
Them
Stop.

What happens next?

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Breathless plotting and twist after twist
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This kept me reading well Into The Dark last night – so many layers of darkness and twisty complexity
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An absolute BELTER of a thriller. A superb plot, brilliantly executed and beautifully written
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An absolute masterclass in misdirection. Trust NO ONE. I loved it
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Classy, complex, filled with twists and dizzying reveals and TOTALLY addictive
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Gripping. Twisty. Complex. No one does ‘dark with heart’ better than Fiona Cummins
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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
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Grips like a vice
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Absorbing, tense and beautifully paced
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Dark, creepy and ultimately compassionate . . . a chilling look at the consequences of a childhood gone wrong
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Utterly compelling; a true just-one-more-chapter thriller
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Trust me – Cummins is a keeper
Biographical note:
Fiona Cummins is an award-winning former journalist and a graduate of the Faber Academy Writing a Novel course. Rattle, her debut novel, was translated into several languages and received widespread critical acclaim from authors and reviewers. She has since written bestsellers The Collector, The Neighbour, When I Was Ten and Into the Dark in which she introduces DC Saul Anguish, a brilliant young detective with a dark past. Fiona lives with her family in Essex.
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Wife. Husband. Friend. Detective. Only one knows the truth. But all of them are lying.