Todos son sospechosos. Todos tienen algo que esconder. Pero alguien va a tener que responder por la muerte de su hija.
En una empobrecida zona de los montes Ozark, en Misuri, en un pueblo pequeño con grandes secretos, dos niñas de doce años aparecen asesinadas. Sin nada que perder y rota de dolor, Eve Taggert se lanza a averiguar qué le ocurrió realmente a su hija.
Eve conoce el lado oscuro de la vida. Su propia madre se encargó de enseñárselo. Una dura lección que ella ha tratado desesperadamente de evitar a su pequeña Junie. Pero, contra todos sus instintos, quizá Eve necesite recurrir a la cruel fortaleza que le inculcó su madre para afrontar la verdad sobre el crimen... y sobre su auténtica naturaleza.
Una historia poderosa y afilada sobre lazos familiares, sobre mujeres que luchan en circunstancias extremas y sobre cómo incluso los lugares más oscuros y aterradores pueden ofrecerte el refugio del hogar.
«Sin concesiones, feroz y brillante.» -
The Guardian
«Desde el atrapante arranque al impactante final, nunca deja de fascinar con sus sorprendentes giros.» -
Associated Press
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
"From its gripping beginning to its sobering finale, Amy Engel's
The Familiar Dark
never fails to enthrall with surprising twists."–
A spellbinding story of a mother with nothing left to lose who sets out on an all-consuming quest for justice after her daughter is murdered on the town playground.
Sometimes the answers are worse than the questions. Sometimes it's better not to know.
Set in the poorest part of the Missouri Ozarks, in a small town with big secrets,
opens with a murder. Eve Taggert, desperate with grief over losing her daughter, takes it upon herself to find out the truth about what happened. Eve is no stranger to the dark side of life, having been raised by a hard-edged mother whose lessons Eve tried not to pass on to her own daughter. But Eve may need her mother's cruel brand of strength if she's going to face the reality about her daughter's death and about her own true nature. Her quest for justice takes her from the seedy underbelly of town to the quiet woods and, most frighteningly, back to her mother's trailer for a final lesson.
is a story about the bonds of family—women doing the best they can for their daughters in dire circumstances—as well as a story about how even the darkest and most terrifying of places can provide the comfort of home.