The Dark: The unputdownable and pulse-raising Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month

ONE DEAD BODY. TWELVE SUSPECTS. TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR DARKNESS.’Outstanding … Haughton writes vividly about a claustrophobic community … her novel really is a superlative locked-room mystery’ Sunday Times (Crime Book of the Month)’Haughton has created a fantastically atmospheric setting … it’s a chilling race to the finish to discover whodunnit’ ObserverIn the most inhospitable environment – cut off from the rest of the world – there’s a killer on the loose.A&E doctor Kate North has been knocked out of her orbit by a personal tragedy. So when she’s offered the opportunity to be an emergency replacement at the UN research station in Antarctica, she jumps at the chance. The previous doctor, Jean-Luc, died in a tragic accident while out on the ice.The move seems an ideal solution for Kate: no one knows about her past; no one is checking up on her. But as total darkness descends for the winter, she begins to suspect that Jean-Luc’s death wasn’t accidental at all.And the more questions she asks, the more dangerous it becomes . . .’A sense of growing menace pervades … the freezing wasteland and claustrophobic workings of the research station are finely rendered’ Financial Times’The kind of heart-pounding, sleep-stealing read that you want to recommend to everyone you meet. An absolutely thrilling book’ CASS GREEN’Chilling and atmospheric . . . had me turning the pages late into the night’ MARK EDWARDS’Tense, thrilling and unpredictable, with one of the most unique and dangerous settings imaginable’ ALLIE REYNOLDS’Set against the dangerous sub-zero temperatures end endless night of the Antarctic… Brilliantly atmospheric and terrifying’ CATHERINE COOPER’Tense, twisted and quite literally chilling – a locked room mystery in a unique setting where no one can be trusted’ SUSI HOLLIDAY’Atmospheric, original and full of tension’ AMANDA JENNINGS’A real edge-of-the-seat plot. I loved it. Original and accomplished’ J.A. CORRIGAN