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This robust, old-fashioned gothic mystery has everything you re looking for: a creepy old house, a tenant with a secret history, and even a few ghosts. Laura McHugh s novel sits at the intersection of memory and history, astutely asking whether we carry the past or it carries us. Jodi Picoult, #1"New York Times" bestselling author of "The Storyteller" and "Leaving Time" A haunting novel from the author of "The Weight of Blood "about a young woman s return to her childhood home and her encounter with the memories and secrets it holds Arrowood is the most ornate and grand of the historical houses that line the Mississippi River in southern Iowa. But the house has a mystery it has never revealed: It s where Arden Arrowood s younger twin sisters vanished on her watch twenty years ago never to be seen again.
About the Author
Laura McHugh is the award-winning, internationally-bestselling author of novels The Weight of Blood, Arrowood, The Wolf Wants In, and What's Done in Darkness. The Weight of Blood won the International Thriller Writers Award and the Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel and the Missouri Author Award for Fiction. Arrowood was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Novel and a Sunday Times bestseller, and The Wolf Wants In was named a Best Book of the Year by Library Journal. What's Done in Darkness was recently featured on the Today Show, where author Harlan Coben called it the best thriller to read this summer. McHugh's work has also been nominated for an Alex Award, a Barry Award, a GoodReads Choice Award, and a Pushcart Prize. A lifelong Midwesterner, McHugh lives in Missouri with her family.
