Bøger af Karen Dionne

Hun troede, hun havde lagt fortiden bag sig. I virkeligheden er hun jaget vildt.I femten år har Rachel Cunningham siddet i frivilligt eksil på et psykiatrisk hospital, da hun er overbevist om, at hun er ansvarlig for sine forældres død. Men da hun får nye oplysninger om drabene, vender Rachel hjem for at lede efter svar. Til stedet, hvor hun altid har følt sig mest tryg: familiens store bjælkehytte i de afsidesliggende skove i Upper Peninsula, Michigan.I takt med at Rachel bliver klogere på, hvad der i virkeligheden skete den skæbnesvangre dag, hendes forældre blev myrdet, må hun sande, at hjem kan være et sted fyldt med ubeskrivelig ondskab."Den onde søster er vanvittig spændende og helt umulig at lægge fra sig. Dionne beviser, at hun er en af de bedste spændingsforfattere, vi har i dag." - Karin Slaughter

Hvis du voksede op i isolation langt ude i skoven ... Ville du så vide, at noget var galt? En nervepirrende menneskejagt i Michigans ødemark. Helena Pelletier har en hemmelighed: Hendes far kidnappede hendes mor som fjortenårig. Helena er undfanget og opvokset i Michigans ødemark i et bjælkehus, hvor hun boede med sin mor og far og lærte at fiske, jage og spore dyr. Uden nogensinde at møde andre mennesker. Hun elskede sit liv i naturen og anede ikke uråd. Og på trods af sin fars uberegnelige adfærd, så elskede hun ham ... indtil hun som tolvårig fandt ud af, hvad han havde gjort. Femten år senere er Helenas far, Dyndkongen, som han blev kaldt af pressen efter et HC Andersen-eventyr, flygtet fra fængslet. Helena begiver sig straks ud for at fange ham med sin riffel. Hun er den eneste, der kan spore ham, for alt, hun ved om overlevelse og jagt, har hun lært af ham. Men hvem jagter i virkeligheden hvem? Dyndkogens datter er første bog på dansk af Karen Dionne. En must-read til fans af Paula Hawkins, Karin Slaughter og dem, der elsker rå og stemningsfulde film og tv-serier som Winter's Bone og True Detective. "Sensationel god spænding." - Lee Child "Jeg er meget begejstret." - Karin Slaughter "Det løb mig koldt ned ad ryggen." - People "Helenas modsatrettede følelser omkring sin far og sin egen identitet løfter denne enestående historie." - Publishers Weekly

She thought she'd buried her past. But what if it's been hunting her this whole time?

Packed with gripping suspense and powerful storytelling, this is a unique, one-more-page, read-in-one-sitting thriller that you'll remember for ever.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ';Brilliant....About as good as a thriller can be.'The New York Times Book Review ';[A] nail-biter perfect forRoomfans.'Cosmopolitan ';Sensationally good psychological suspense.'Lee Child Praised by Karin Slaughter and Megan Abbott, The Marsh King's Daughter is the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father. Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father's sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too...until she learned precisely how savage he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn't know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don't stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh Kingbecause only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.A Michigan Notable Book!

She thought she''d buried her past. But what if it''s been hunting her this whole time?From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Marsh King''s Daughter comes a startling novel of psychological suspense as two generations of sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil.You have been cut off from society for fifteen years, shut away in a mental hospital in self-imposed exile as punishment for the terrible thing you did when you were a child.But what if nothing about your past is as it seems? And if you didn''t accidentally shoot and kill your mother, then whoever did is still out there. Waiting for you.For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents'' deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns, in a quest for answers, to the place where she once felt safest: her family''s sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan''s Upper Peninsula. As Rachel begins to uncover what really happened on the day her parents were murdered, she learns--as her mother did years earlier--that home can be a place of unspeakable evil, and that the bond she shares with her sister might be the most poisonous of all.

Perfect for fans of Fiona Barton, Ruth Ware and Claire Douglas, this is an unforgettable, read-in-one-sitting thriller packed with gripping suspense. *** SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM ***