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Table of Contents
About the Book
On Halloween, a group of teenage students meet in the woods near Sally in the Wood, a road steeped in local lore and rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered girl. By the end of the night, one student will be dead.
Rachel, the school guidance counselor, is trying to keep a handle on her increasingly distant teenaged daughter, Ellie, while students and parents panic and mourn. Her ex-husband and detective Ben, dealing with a personal crisis of his own, has concerns about his daughter’s safety as he investigates the death. Meanwhile, Ellie is keeping secrets from both her parents, including one about where she was that night.
Told from multiple perspectives and with Hannah Richell’s distinct “atmospheric and ever-twisting” (Emylia Hall, author of the Shell House Detective Mysteries) prose, One Dark Night is a white-knuckled and suspenseful thriller about urban legends, privilege, and how the past continues to haunt us.
Product Details
- Publisher: Atria Books (August 19, 2025)
- Length: 384 pages
- ISBN13: 9781668081341
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Raves and Reviews
“Richell delivers a well-executed whodunit that culminates in a darkly satisfying reveal.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Thrilling and page-turning!”
—Sally Hepworth, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister
“Hannah Richell is the new master of the atmospheric thriller.”
—Ali Lowe, author of The School Run
“Dark and twisty small-town noir at its very best—I couldn't look away!”
—Pip Drysdale, author of The Close Up
"Immersive and twisty, One Dark Night has a brilliantly realised sense of place and fully realised characters, with Rachel and Ellie’s mother/daughter relationship particularly convincing and well done. More than merely a well-written and propulsive thriller, One Dark Night is a poignant exploration of grief, and a chilling exploration of the unkindness teenage girls can inflict on each other. Highly recommended."
—Sarah Vaughan, bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal
"Evocative and haunting, One Dark Night delves into the complexities of human nature and relationships. This gothic thriller had me on edge through its clever twists and turns, and kept me reading late into the night to the spine-chilling climax."
—Petronella McGovern, bestselling author of The Last Trace
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