โA phenomenal, haunting debut.โโGillian Flynn
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Nothing burns as bright as the truth.
It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.
But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the townโs most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrensโs biggest scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friendsโjust before Kaycee disappeared for good.
Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secretโa ritual called โThe Gameโโit will threaten reputations, and lives, in the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.
With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote rural town of just five claustrophobic square miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide.
Praise for Bonfire
โI burned through Krysten Ritter's hugely accomplished debut.ย Bonfireย is dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.โโRuth Ware, bestselling author ofย The Woman in Cabin 10
โTheย Jessica Jonesย star makes an auspicious literary debut withย Bonfire,ย spinning a suspenseful, psychologically gripping story.โโEntertainment Weekly
โIn this adroit debut the star of Marvel'sย Jessica Jonesย proves her talents aren't limited to acting. . . . [Bonfireย is] a thriller that delivers suspense, surprise and satisfaction.โโPeople