Coram House

Sharp Objects meets The Appeal in this "atmospheric and chilling" (Flynn Berry, New York Times bestselling author) novel--based on a shocking true story--about a crime writer who risks everything as she investigates a decades-old mystery at a crumbling orphanage. On a blistering summer day in 1968, nine-year-old Tommy vanishes without a trace from Coram House, an orphanage on the shores of Lake Champlain. Fifty years later, the opportunity to investigate his disappearance and the orphanage´s eerie lore is just the break that struggling true crime writer Alex Kelley needs. Arriving in Vermont for research, Alex grows obsessed with Tommy´s disappearance, until her investigation takes a chilling turn with the discovery of a woman´s body in the lake. Alex is convinced this new death is somehow connected to Coram House´s dark past, even if Officer Russell Parker thinks she´s just desperate for a story. As the body count rises, Alex must prove that the key to finding the killer lies in a decades-old murder--or else she risks becoming the next victim herself in this spine-tingling debut that "is not to be missed" (Tessa Wegert, author of The Coldest Case).