A Dark and Secret Place: A Thriller

By Jen Williams

Book Overview

For fans of Kathleen Barber and Julia Heaberlin comes a chilling psychological suspense from award-winning author Jen Williams about a woman who discovers her late mother had a decades-long secret correspondence with a serial killer, begging the question: how well do we know our own family and even ourselves?

When prodigal daughter Heather Evans returns to her family home after her mother's baffling suicide, she makes an alarming discovery--stacks and stacks of carefully preserved letters from notorious serial killer Michael Reave. The Red Wolf, as he was dubbed by the press, has been in prison for over twenty years, serving a life sentence for the gruesome and ritualistic murders of several women across the country, although he has always protested his innocence. The police have had no reason to listen, yet Heather isn't the only one to have cause to re-examine the murders. The body of a young woman has just been found, dismembered and placed inside a tree, the corpse planted with flowers. Just as the Red Wolf once did.

What did Heather's mother know? Why did she kill herself? And with the monstrous Red Wolf safely locked inside a maximum security prison, who is stalking young women now? Teaming up with DI Ben Parker, Heather hopes to get some answers for herself and for the newest victims of this depraved murderer. Yet to do that, she must speak to Michael Reave herself, and expose herself to truths she may not be ready to face. Something dark is walking in the woods, and it knows her all too well.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643855743
• ISBN13: 9781643855745
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Crooked Lane Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

I couldn’t stop reading this book

I read a book from this author and I loved it so I wanted to get another book of hers. I couldn’t stop reading this book, I even read it during my lunch break. This is about a woman trying to get answers from a notorious serial killer regarding her mom’s suicide. I don’t need details of the making of a serial killer, so skip chapter 14, it has animal abuse, I skimmed through it quickly and then skipped it.