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A intensely romantic and atmospheric thriller for young adults, full of twists and turns with a simmering supernatural undercurrent.
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About Dark and Shallow Lies
When seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana - the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the Psychic Capital of the World - she knows it will be different from past years: her childhood best friend Elora went missing several months earlier and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappears.
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Dark and Shallow Lies Synopsis
When seventeen-year-old Grey makes her annual visit to La Cachette, Louisiana - the tiny bayou town that proclaims to be the Psychic Capital of the World - she knows it will be different from past years: her childhood best friend Elora went missing several months earlier and no one is telling the truth about the night she disappears.
Grey can't believe that Elora vanished into thin air any more than she can believe that nobody in a town full of psychics knows what happened. But as she digs into the night that Elora went missing, she begins to realize that everybody in town is hiding something-her grandmother Honey; her childhood crush Hart; and even her late mother, whose secrets continue to call to Grey from beyond the grave.
When a mysterious stranger emerges from the bayou - a stormy-eyed boy with links to Elora and the town's bloody history - Grey realizes that La Cachette's past is far more present and dangerous than she'd ever understood. She doesn't know who she can trust.
In a town where secrets lurk just below the surface, and where a murderer is on the loose, nobody can be presumed innocent-and La Cachette's dark and shallow lies may just rip the town apart.
Perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, Karen McManus and Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing.
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9780008494780 |
| Publication date: |
2nd September 2021 |
| Author: |
Ginny Myers Sain |
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Farshore an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
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Paperback |
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421 pages |
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14+ |
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Ginny Myers Sain Press Reviews
Dark and Shallow Lies oozes atmosphere and dread [...] An intense and brooding thriller laced with the supernatural and killer twists. - Observer
Dark and Shallow Lies is an all-consuming and lyrically written book that envelops you in its small-town Louisiana atmosphere...it's a story that crackles off the page and into readers' hearts, where it will stay for a long time to come. Culturefly
Don't even try to resist-Ginny Myers Sain will lure you into the spellbinding world of the deep Louisiana bayou with this riveting missing girl mystery populated by a bewitching cast of characters; spun to life in lush, atmospheric prose; and teeming with a dark mythology that is part folklore, part psychic mysticism, and entirely compelling. - Kit Frick, author of I Killed Zoe Spanos
Haunting and arresting, this is one stunning debut. Ginny Myers Sain has written a totally engrossing small-town mystery about what happens when you finally dig up long-buried secrets. -Jessica Goodman, bestselling author of They Wish They Were Us
Enchanting and chilling at once, you'll instantly get sucked into this atmospheric tale of kindred spirits brimming with secrets that could tear them apart. Ginny Myers Sain's haunting, lush, lyrical prose will keep you captivated till the end. - Diana Urban, author of All Your Twisted Secrets
About Ginny Myers Sain
Ginny Myers Sain enjoys creating dark, tangled, mysterious stories that exist in the in-between spaces where magic feels most possible. She especially loves writing for young adult readers because those years between childhood and adulthood are full of so much possibility...and so many big fears and questions. Ginny currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her teenage son and a very cowardly doberman named Shipley. When she's not working in the theatre or writing, you're likely to find her listening to true crime podcasts, taking pictures of alligators, eating tacos, or planning a trip to Walt Disney World. Dark and Shallow Lies is her debut novel.
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