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 shock and turmoil.

Local police detective Ben Chase is assigned to the murder investigation, but when the victim is identified as a student from his daughter's school, tensions rise.

Was she the victim of a party prank gone wrong, or does the girl's 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.



About the Author
Hannah Richell was born in Kent and spent her childhood years in Buckinghamshire and Canada. After graduating from the University of Nottingham, she worked in the book publishing and film industries in both London and Sydney. She is a dual citizen of Great Britain and Australia, and currently lives in the South West of England with her family. Richell is the author of international bestsellers Secrets of the Tides (2012), The Shadow Year (2014), The Peacock Summer (2019) and The River Home (2020). Her work has been translated into twenty-one languages.


Book Information
ISBN 9781398528000
Author Hannah Richell
Format Hardback
Page Count 432
Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publisher Simon & Schuster Ltd