The Dark Lake

Hooked me from page one! [A] stunning debut thriller... With clever twists and all-too-human characters, this book will keep you racing toward the end. * Lisa Gardner * A stunning debut that gripped me from page one and never eased up. Dark, dark, dark-but infused with insight, pathos, a great sense of place, and razor-sharp writing. It's going to be big and Sarah Bailey needs to clear a shelf for awards. * C.J. Box * A crime thriller that seizes you from the first page and slowly draws you into a web of deception and long buried secrets. Beautifully written, compulsively readable, and highly recommended. * Douglas Preston * Superior storytelling... excellent * Mail Online * I raced through this deliciously complicated, mesmerizing debut at warp speed. Sarah Bailey's The Dark Lake is sure to keep readers awake far too late into the night. * Karen Dionne, author The Marsh King's Daughter * A mesmerizing thriller full of long buried secrets that sucked me right in and kept me up late turning pages... An exquisite debut * Jennifer McMahon, New York Times bestselling author of The Winter People * A good story, well told. * The Literary Review * The Dark Lake is a thrilling psychological police procedural as well as a leap into the mind of a woman engulfed with guilt. * New York Journal of Books * This polished debut is a winner from the first page. * Daily Telegraph * . . . a page-turner that's both tense and thought provoking. * Publishers Weekly *

Sarah Bailey is a Melbourne based writer with a background in advertising and communications. She has two young children and currently works as a director of creative projects company Mr Smith. Over the past five years she has written a number of short stories and opinion pieces. The Dark Lake is her first novel.