"Confident and assured writing, all the more exciting considering this is a debut novel. "
What a debut supernatural thriller! The main character is Detective John Dark, still trying to find his missing daughter after two years of looking while at the same time trying to repair his credibility as a detective. As such, a completely relatable character. Murders are committed, bodies staged, with the husbands all looking to be the obvious culprit. John Dark thinks differently, bringing him into conflict both with his boss and police partner. Supernatural elements appear as the book progresses. Confident and assured writing, all the more exciting considering this is a debut novel.
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Detective John Dark's daughter has been missing for two years. In his frantic and unfruitful search for her he overreached his position, and was reprimanded and subsequently demoted.
Now mysteriously reinstated to the homicide department, Dark is put on a chilling case a man who killed his wife in their locked house and then dressed the body up to resemble a deer. A few days later an impossibly similar case crops up connecting the suspects to a thirty year old missing persons' case.
As Dark is finally making headway, a new lead in his daughter's disappearance pops up and threatens to derail his career again.
Time is running out and Dark needs to solve the case before more people are killed, and while there is still hope to find his daughter.
In the style of True Detective and The Silence of the Lambs, Whitesands is a thrilling and terrifying supernatural crime novel.
Whitesands features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Indie Books We Love, Fiction, Recommendations, Horror and Supernatural Fiction, Occult fiction
Whitesands is available in Digital (delivered electronically), Paperback
Whitesands was written by Johann Thorsson and published by Canelo
Whitesands has 336 pages
£8.99
