Girl in the Dark

<p>An award-winning internationally bestselling author makes her American debut with this taut riveting domestic drama with the compulsive intensity of <em>The Good Girl The Pocket Wife </em> and <em>The Stranger</em> about a long-lost brother convicted of a horrifying crime and a sister's fight to clear his name.</p><p>A single mother and lawyer Iris has a colorful caseload a young son with behavior issues and a judgmental mother.</p><p>She also has a brother--shocking news she uncovers by accident. Why did her mother lie to her for her entire life? Why did she hide the existence of Ray Boelens from her?</p><p>Curious about this sibling she has never known Iris begins to search for long-buried truths. What she discovers surprises--and horrifies--her. Her older brother is autistic--and in prison for brutally murdering his neighbor and her daughter.</p><p>Visiting Ray she meets a man who looks heartbreakingly like her own son. A man who is devoted to his tropical fish and who loves baking bread. A man whose naiveté unnerves her. There is no question that Ray is odd and obsessive unable to communicate like the rest of us. But is he really a killer?</p><p>Told in the alternative voices of Ray and Iris <em>Girl in the Dark</em> is a compulsive page-turning thriller about lies murder and the tenacity of a family determined to stay together even as they are pulled apart at the most vulnerable seams.</p>