WINNER of the McIlvanney Prize 2020Shortlisted for Bloody Scotlands Scottish Crime Debut of the Year 2020Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2020Hugely atmospheric exquisitely written and utterly gripping LUCY FOLEY author of The Hunting PartyIts both eerie and thrilling at once and had me under its spell until the end SOPHIE MACKINTOSH author of Blue Ticket and The Water CureThey are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light standing like men.Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup.