Knife River

Author: Justine Champine

Thriller / suspense

Published on 6^th June 2024 by Bonnier Books Ltd (Manilla Press) in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 368 pages
198mm x 130mm | 368g

Beautifully written and soaked with atmosphere, KNIFE RIVER is the debut novel of an exciting new voice in literary crime.

First, there were my mothers bones . . .

A young woman returns home to the small, claustrophobic town of Knife River. When Jess was thirteen, her mother went for a walk and did not return - now, fifteen years later, bones have been discovered in the woods nearby.

Jesss sister has remained in their childhood home - her life, their home and the town itself seemingly frozen in time. As days turn into weeks, Jesss understanding of the past, her sister, and herself becomes more and more complicated - and the list of suspects responsible for her mothers terrible fate more and more ominous . . .

A delicious smoke curl of a novel: atmospheric, sharp, and skilled at twisting the readers guesses in unimaginable waysJODI PICOULTKnife River is an intelligent literary mystery with a rich sense of place and a clever plot; but it is Champines keenly-observed depiction of the aftermath of tragedy and the corrosive impact of loss that sets this novel apartPAULA HAWKINS