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About to turn forty, her youthful dreams of becoming an actress abandoned, there's no doubt in her mind that suburban wife and mother-of-two Clare Taylor has settled. A wild week in Chicago may have shaken things up a bit, but as she turns her key in her Madison, Wisconsin home on the eve of Hallowe'en, she knows that what happened with her ex was nothing more than a distraction, that this is where her life is. Except it's all gone. The furniture gone, the house stripped, her husband Danny, her daughters, all gone; no message; no note, nothing. Outside in the dark, searching for a sign, she steps in one: the eviscerated body of the family dog. By dawn next morning, her supposedly mortgage-free home has been foreclosed against, one of Danny's childhood friends lies dead in her backyard, and Clare is caught up in a nightmare that began with her husband on Hallowe'en night, 1976. A nightmare that reaches its terrifying climax thirty-five years later.

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Hughes has created an effective puzzle, rife with misdirection and unreliable protagonists Publishers Weekly

"""Hughes has created an effective puzzle, rife with misdirection and unreliable protagonists"" Publishers Weekly Readers who appreciate family thrillers from such writers as Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay will find much to enjoy here"" Booklist ""Cutting back and forth from Claire to Danny to a Madison police officer to an assassin who's been hired by a shadowy Mr. Big, Hughes sticks so close to each one that he manages to create a threatening, baffling world that feels both kaleidoscopic and claustrophobic"" Kirkus Reviews"

Hughes has created an effective puzzle, rife with misdirection and unreliable protagonists Publishers Weekly Readers who appreciate family thrillers from such writers as Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay will find much to enjoy here Booklist Cutting back and forth from Claire to Danny to a Madison police officer to an assassin who's been hired by a shadowy Mr. Big, Hughes sticks so close to each one that he manages to create a threatening, baffling world that feels both kaleidoscopic and claustrophobic Kirkus Reviews

Hughes has created an effective puzzle, rife with misdirection and unreliable protagonists Publishers Weekly Readers who appreciate family thrillers from such writers as Harlan Coben and Linwood Barclay will find much to enjoy here. Booklist

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Declan Hughes is the author of five novels in the Ed Loy PI series. His debut crime novel, The Wrong Type of Blood, won the Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel, and he has also been shortlisted for the Edgar, Shamus and Macavity Awards, and the Crime Writers' Association's New Blood Dagger. Declan is also an award-winning playwright and screenwriter, and the co-founder of Dublin's Rough Magic Theatre Company. He lives with his wife and two daughters in South Dublin, Ireland.

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