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Fresh from winning both the Edgar Award and the British Crime Writers Association's John Creasy Award for A Grave Talent, the author follows Anne Waverly, a female expert on cults, into a shattering confrontation in the English countryside. 40,000 first printing. Tour.
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Laurie R. King lives in northern California with her family. A Darker Place is her eighth novel.
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ut novel, A Grave Talent, Laurie R. King became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic. Now, in her first stand-alone novel, the Edgar Award and John Creasey Award winner brings us an intelligent, engrossing drama of good and evil--once again showing how Laurie King breaks every rule to craft some of the most fascinating novels in crime fiction.
Anne Waverly is a respected university professor. Few know that, eighteen years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and seven-year-old daughter. Fewer still know that her past and her academic specialty--alternative religious movements--have made her a brilliant FBI operative. Four times she has infiltrated suspect communities, escaping her own memories of loss and carnage to find a measure of atonement. Now, as she begins to savor life once more, she has no intention of taking another assignment.
Until, that is, she is given an envelo
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