The girl in white was supposed to be a ghost. Then her body was found at the bottom of the folly.

Everyone in Thorncombe knows the legend of the murdered bride who haunts the woods—a girl in a white dress who lures the unwary to their deaths. Most dismiss it as folklore.

Until Halloween.

The morning after a party in the haunted woods, a teenage girl is discovered dead. Dressed in white. Her body carefully arranged beneath an ancient stone folly.

Detective Ben Chase knows the stakes couldn't be higher. With a teenage daughter of his own, he refuses to believe this was simply a party gone wrong. But as he digs deeper, he uncovers a web of secrets, lies and simmering tensions hidden beneath the surface of the close-knit town.

Was the girl the victim of a cruel prank that turned deadly? Or is someone using Thorncombe's darkest legend to disguise a far more sinister crime?

As the investigation closes in on the truth, the danger creeps ever closer to Chase's own family. And with a killer still at large, no one is safe.

A gripping, atmospheric thriller packed with twists, secrets and heart-stopping suspense, where nothing is quite as it seems—and the truth may be more terrifying than the legend.

'Thrilling and page-turning!' — Sally Hepworth

'The new master of the atmospheric thriller' — Ali Lowe

'Delivers suspense until the very end.' — Books+Publishing