Media Bites July 2023

JULY 2023 – FICTION

After That Night KARIN SLAUGHTER

Drowning Girls VERONICA LANDO

The unmissable new thriller in the Will Trent series – now a major TV adaptation. Watch Will Trent on Disney+! After that night, nothing was ever the same again... Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton’s life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, on call in the ER, everything changes. Sara battles to

Cast a stone. Aim true. Let her sink. Nate can’t believe he’s dragged himself up to this backwater town. Port Flinders would have fallen off the map years ago, except for one thing. Tourists flock to its mangrove-lined shores for the annual Drowning Girl festival: sacrifice a girl at sea, and the fishing hauls that keep the town afloat will prosper. Or don’t and the whole town will sink. But it’s just a legend, a gimmick. Everybody knows that.

As fireworks light up the night sky, a woman’s body is pulled from the inky waters of the gulf. Shock waves threaten to tear Port Flinders apart when she’s identified as Kelsey Webb: a local teenager thought dead for twenty-five years. As Nate tries to find the truth about what happened to Kelsey, he uncovers a string of deadly accidents over the decades. All women. All drowned. And always during the festival. In his search for answers, the legend of the Drowning Girl begins to take hold of Nate, weaving its way into his head and threatening to pull him under, and he begins to question which sacrifices are truly necessary. Released: 05/07/23 TPB | 352pp veronicalando.com

save a broken young woman who’s been brutally attacked. But as the investigation progresses, led by GBI Special Agent Will Trent, it becomes clear that Dani Cooper’s assault is uncannily linked to Sara’s. And it seems the past isn’t going to stay buried forever ... Released: 05/07/23 TPB | 432pp karinslaughter.com

AU $32.99 NZ $35.00 Imprint: HarperCollins

AU $32.99 NZ $34.99 Imprint: HarperCollins

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