Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Guardian, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.

‘A superior psychological thriller... Paula McLain focuses on the victims rather than the abductors in a gripping serial-killer story that is also a sensitive study of grief.’

Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Guardian, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.

‘A superior psychological thriller... Paula McLain focuses on the victims rather than the abductors in a gripping serial-killer story that is also a sensitive study of grief.’

Paula McLain is the New York Times bestselling author of Love and Ruin, Circling the Sun, The Paris Wife, and A Ticket to Ride, the memoir Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in New York Times, Good Housekeeping, O: The Oprah Magazine, Town & Country, Guardian, Huffington Post, and elsewhere. She lives in Ohio with her family.

‘A superior psychological thriller... Paula McLain focuses on the victims rather than the abductors in a gripping serial-killer story that is also a sensitive study of grief.’