In the Blind

A dead girl in the marshes. A town half-drowned in secrets.
An extraordinary literary mystery … combines a riveting thriller, an intensely atmospheric exploration of a small town in the low country, and a fascinating portrayal of a writers struggle with obsession and trauma ANGIE KIM
Masterful, utterly absorbing … I am always looking for exactly this brand of smart, wild literary mystery which is so very hard to find CHELSEA BIEKER
A gifted storyteller MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD
The perfect conclusion I never saw coming STACY WILLINGHAM

Life has forced Kate back to her childhood home on the Carolina coast, a place she once couldnt wait to leave — a quiet stretch of marsh and moss thats become, decades later, a coveted and cloistered neighborhood.
When a girl is found dead in an old hunting blind, the town is shaken — but Kate is something closer to consumed. She cant look away from the case, cant keep herself from following the girls trail. And the more she wades into the dead girls story, the more she disturbs her own, until the line between the two mysteries — one new, one twenty years buried — starts to blur.
Twisting and beautifully written, In the Blind is a mystery about the answers we never stop searching for, and the truths we cant let ourselves see — perfect for readers of The God of the Woods, The Paper Palace, Where the Crawdads Sing, and All the Colours of the Dark.

Exquisitely atmospheric, twisting and beautiful, this marshland literary mystery is perfect for readers of The God of the Woods, The Paper Palace, Where the Crawdads Sing or All the Colours of the Dark.

PRAISE FOR LYDIA FITZPATRICK

‘A cross-cultural coming-of-age story that breaks your heart in the best way’ Maggie Shipstead, author of Great Circle
‘As delicious as it is dazzling – a mystery I was tempted to read in one sitting … Brilliantly conceived and exquisitely observed’ Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists
‘This intricate, capacious, startlingly inventive novel is so vivid, and rings so true, that its characters have taken up permanent residence in my imagination’ R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries
‘This supple, sparkling novel is really about tender souls navigating unfamiliar terrain and human bonds warm enough to thaw snowbanks’ Adam Johnson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Masters Son
‘Utterly brilliant and completely captivating … one of the most propulsive, un-put-downable literary novels Ive read in ages’ Anthony Marra, author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
‘The bonds of family and homeland new and old are tested in this sexy and pensive thriller’ Observer
‘Its a heartbreaking read, and one I struggled to put down’ Buzzfeed