Ex-journalist Kay and her family are spending the summer in a rented farmhouse in Vermont. Haunted by her traumatic past, she becomes obsessed when she finds disturbing writing scrawled across one of the walls...

The author of "The Gloaming" is back with a story of a summer spent in a rented farmhouse in Vermont, in which haunted ex-journalist Kay comes upon disturbing writing daubed across the walls, and at the same time becomes entwined with a local man with a violent past. The overall effect is a considered exploration of personal and national violence.

The book [has] a peculiarly absorbing momentum' Sunday Times Crime Club.