Places in the Dark

It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets.

Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma [...]
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It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets.

Before a year goes by, she will flee Port Alma on the same bus that brought her there. But before she goes, she will irrevocably alter the lives of two brothers — leaving one dead, and the other perched on the edge of madness.

There is much that Dora March has hidden.

But in Port Alma, Maine, there are other secrets, too....





"Cook is a master of sustained suspense. This brilliant evocation of how the past infects the present ... lures readers into labyrinths of loss, guilt, and evil intent."

— Booklist (starred review)

"[The story] is swept along by Cook's artistry, his insights into broken people, his austere imagery of the barren landscapes that attract them."

— The New York Times

"Cook writes very well; his tone is sad, even foreboding, yet almost elegiac, as he weaves ... an intricate fabric of tragedy."

— The Boston Globe

Don't miss Thomas H. Cook's other award-winning works of suspense:

Instruments of Night

Evidence of Blood

The Chatham School Affair

Winners of the Edgar Award for Best Novel:

Breakheart Hill

Mortal Memory

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