Laura McHugh's Blog
May 25, 2021
Giveaway!! Hardcover copies of What's Done in Darkness
My new thriller
WHAT'S DONE IN DARKNESS
pubs 6/22, and there is currently a Goodreads giveaway for finished hardcover copies! (This giveaway is US only, but if you're outside the US, there will be a giveaway of digital copies soon--add to your "want to read" list to be notified.) :)
Enter giveaway here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Add to your books:
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"Compulsively, propulsively readable." -Laura Lippman, NYT bestselling author of Lady in the Lake
One of 2021’s Best Beach Reads—OPRAH DAILY
What's Done in Darkness:
Seventeen-year-old Sarabeth has become increasingly rebellious since her parents found God and moved their family to a remote Arkansas farmstead where she's forced to wear long dresses, follow strict rules, and grow her hair down to her waist. She's all but given up on escaping the farm when a masked man appears one stifling summer morning and snatches her out of the cornfield.
A week after her abduction, she's found alongside a highway in a bloodstained dress--alive--but her family treats her like she's tainted, and there's little hope of finding her captor, who kept Sarabeth blindfolded in the dark the entire time, never uttering a word. One good thing arises from the horrific ordeal: a chance to leave the Ozarks and start a new life.
Five years later, Sarabeth is struggling to keep her past buried when investigator Nick Farrow calls. Convinced that her case is connected to the eerily similar disappearance of another young girl, Farrow wants Sarabeth's help, and he'll do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means dragging her back to the last place she wants to go--the hills and hollers of home, to face her estranged family and all her deepest fears.
In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, blood ties and buried secrets draw a young woman back into the nightmare of her past to save a missing girl, unaware of what awaits her in the darkness.
Enter giveaway here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Add to your books:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
"Compulsively, propulsively readable." -Laura Lippman, NYT bestselling author of Lady in the Lake
One of 2021’s Best Beach Reads—OPRAH DAILY
What's Done in Darkness:
Seventeen-year-old Sarabeth has become increasingly rebellious since her parents found God and moved their family to a remote Arkansas farmstead where she's forced to wear long dresses, follow strict rules, and grow her hair down to her waist. She's all but given up on escaping the farm when a masked man appears one stifling summer morning and snatches her out of the cornfield.
A week after her abduction, she's found alongside a highway in a bloodstained dress--alive--but her family treats her like she's tainted, and there's little hope of finding her captor, who kept Sarabeth blindfolded in the dark the entire time, never uttering a word. One good thing arises from the horrific ordeal: a chance to leave the Ozarks and start a new life.
Five years later, Sarabeth is struggling to keep her past buried when investigator Nick Farrow calls. Convinced that her case is connected to the eerily similar disappearance of another young girl, Farrow wants Sarabeth's help, and he'll do whatever it takes to get it, even if that means dragging her back to the last place she wants to go--the hills and hollers of home, to face her estranged family and all her deepest fears.
In this riveting new novel from Laura McHugh, blood ties and buried secrets draw a young woman back into the nightmare of her past to save a missing girl, unaware of what awaits her in the darkness.
January 26, 2016
Arrowood
Arrowood: A Novel
My second novel, ARROWOOD, will be out July 5th in the US and June 16th in the UK. I will be giving away some ARCs in the near future! :)
Laura McHugh
My second novel, ARROWOOD, will be out July 5th in the US and June 16th in the UK. I will be giving away some ARCs in the near future! :)
Laura McHugh
November 12, 2014
Thank you!
Thank you so much to all of you who have read, rated, and reviewed The Weight of Blood! I am thrilled to have made it to the semi-finals of the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Debut Author and Mystery & Thriller categories, and I am grateful to you for making it happen. The best part of the entire publishing process has been hearing from readers and meeting you in person at book clubs and events. I wouldn't be where I am today without you. Thank you. :)
