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When the Stars Go Dark

By: Paula McLain
Narrated by: Marin Ireland
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From the New York Times best-selling author of The Paris Wife.

A detective hiding away from the world. A disappearance that reaches into her past.

Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective living in San Francisco. When unspeakable tragedy strikes, she turns to the Californian village of Mendocino to grieve. Seeking comfort in the chocolate-box village she grew up in, Anna instead arrives to news that a local girl has gone missing.

The crime feels frighteningly reminiscent of a crucial time in Anna’s childhood, when an unsolved murder changed the community forever. As past and present collide, Anna is forced to confront the darkest side of human nature.

©2021 Paula McLain (P)2021 W F Howes Family Life Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Disappearance Fiction Crime

Critic Reviews

“A novel of both great sadness and great beauty; a gripping story drenched in the exquisite allure of the natural world.” (Kristin Hannah, New York Times best-selling author of The Nightingale)

“A tour de force of literary suspense. It pulled me under and left me gasping.” (Christina Baker Kline, author of The Exiles)
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