The Gathering : A Novel

✍ Scribed by C. J. Tudor

• Book ID: 115014509
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 528 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780593356609

✦ Synopsis

A detective investigating a grisly crime in rural Alaska finds herself caught up in the dark secrets and superstitions of a small town in this riveting novel from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man.
"The Gathering is an incredibly exciting novel, tightly plotted and brilliant tense, with an atmosphere you could eat with a spoon."--Stuart Turton, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who's responsible: a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs living in an old mine settlement deep in the woods.
Detective Barbara Atkins, a specialist in vampyr killings, is called in to officially determine if this is a Colony killing--and authorize a cull. Old suspicions die hard in a town...