They Say a Girl Died Here

From the New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes and We Live Here Now, a thrilling, genre-bending mystery about two murdered girls, a town with dark secrets, and a race to break a deadly cycle.

 

Anna Maybourne feels trapped in Harper’s Creek, a nowhere town full of dusty farmland plagued by drought, where the only interesting events have been a string of grisly murders attributed to a long-dead killer called The Farmhand. But as Anna cares for her grandmother with dementia, whose paranoid episodes have started to unnerve her, she wonders if the closed case is actually unsolved.

As the anniversary of The Farmhand murders nears, young women, including Anna’s sister, worry they might be next, and Anna’s grandmother grows stranger. Anna begins to think her grandmother’s delusional moments are somehow the key to discovering the truth about the murders, and to question if the old house, and their new start, is haunted by its own bloody baggage.

With a devastating mystery at its core, They Say a Girl Died Here is a novel of thrilling and terrifying secrets, with a mind-bending twist that could only come from Sarah Pinborough.