Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2020 by: The Washington Post,
Vogue, Marie Claire, Entertainment Weekly, The Millions, New York
Magazine, Paste Magazine, LitHub, E! News Online, and many more
From one of our most ceaselessly provocative literary talents, a
novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow
whose life is upturned when she finds an ominous note on a walk in
the woods. While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded
woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully
pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will
ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her dead body." But
there is no dead body. Our narrator is deeply shaken; she has no
idea what to make of this. She is new to this area, alone after the
death of her husband, and she knows no one. Becoming obsessed with
solving this mystery, our narrator imagines who Magda was and how
she met her fate. With very little to go on, she invents a list of
murder suspects and possible motives for the crime. Oddly, her
suppositions begin to find correspondences in the real world, and
with mounting excitement and dread, the fog of mystery starts to
fade into menacing certainty. As her investigation widens, strange
dissonances accrue, perhaps associated with the darkness in her own
past; we must face the prospect that there is either an innocent
explanation for all this or a much more sinister one. A triumphant
blend of horror, suspense, and pitch-black comedy, Death in Her
Hands asks us to consider how the stories we tell ourselves both
reflect the truth and keep us blind to it. Once again, we are in
the hands of a narrator whose unreliability is well earned, and the
stakes have never been higher.
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