No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does. He starts to see things that can’t be real – notes hidden in his cupboards, from an old friend now dead a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help entire chapters he doesn’t recall typing, appearing overnight.

And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.īut the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write. “If you love the novels of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith, and Tana French, here’s your next obsession.”-Kelly Link, author of White Cat, Black Dogįrom Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street, comes a masterful story about friendship and betrayal, dark obsessions, and the impossibility of escaping your own story.

Looking glass sound by catriona ward