Danya Kukafka Books

'THRILLING' Paula Hawkins 'COMPULSIVE' The Times 'SEARING' Brit Bennett 'DEVASTATING' Observer 'UNFORGETTABLE' Ashley Audrain 'BRILLIANT' Chris Whitaker Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. But this is not his story. Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. Yet now he awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. This is the story of the women who survive. As the clock ticks down, three women - a mother, a sister, a detective - reckon with the choices that culminate in tragedy, the impact on those in its wake, and the possibility of redemption. WINNER OF THE MWA EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2023

As morning dawns in a sleepy Colorado suburb, a dusting of snow covers high-school freshman Lucinda Hayes's dead body on a playground carousel. Accusations spread quickly and Lucinda's tragic death draws three outsiders from the shadows. Oddball Cameron Whitley loved - still loves - Lucinda. Though they've hardly ever spoken, and any sensible onlooker would call him Lucinda's stalker, Cameron is convinced that he knows her better than anyone. Completely untethered by the news of her death, Cameron's erratic behaviour provides the town ample reason to suspect that he's the killer. Jade Dixon-Burns hates Lucinda. Lucinda took everything from her. The worst part was Lucinda's blissful ignorance to the damage she'd wrought. Officer Russ Fletcher doesn't know Lucinda, but he knows the kid everyone is talking about, the boy who may have killed her. Cameron Whitley is his ex-partner's son. Now Russ must take a painful journey through the past to solve Lucinda's murder and keep a promise he made long ago.

Ein erschütternder Thriller über drei Frauen, die in den Bannkreis eines Serienmörders geraten In 12 Stunden soll Ansel Packer hingerichtet werden. Doch dies ist nicht seine Geschichte. Dies ist die Geschichte der Frauen, die er zurückgelassen hat. Ansel Packer weiß genau, was er verbrochen hat. Nun wartet er auf seine Hinrichtung – das gleiche grausame Schicksal, das er vor Jahren seinen Opfern auferlegt hat. Doch er will nicht sterben. Er will verstanden werden. Durch ein Kaleidoskop von Frauen – eine Mutter, eine Schwester, eine Kommissarin der Mordkommission – erfahren wir die Geschichte seines Lebens. Atemberaubend spannend zeigt Kukafka in diesem virtuos erzählten Thriller nicht nur das Narrativ des Serienmörders in neuem Licht, sie zeichnet auch ein mitreißendes Porträt von Weiblichkeit.