Mystery, Crime & Thriller
A Novel
When a thirteen-year-old vanishes from her bunk at an Adirondack summer camp in 1975, the alarm is doubled by memory: she is the second child of the camp-owning Van Laar family to disappear.
From that premise Liz Moore builds a mystery of unusual density, braiding timelines and perspectives - campers, counselors, investigators, the family whose money shadows the whole valley - into a portrait of class, negligence and buried guilt. The pleasures are those of the very best literary crime: a puzzle engineered with patience, characters drawn with a novelist's care, and prose that never coasts.
Moore withholds and reveals with real control, so that the solution, when it arrives, feels both surprising and earned. Readers who want a thriller that rewards the same attention as serious fiction will be gripped from the first page and satisfied at the last.
Atmospheric, humane and expertly paced, it became one of the decade's crossover crime sensations for good reason.
The book
Set in 1975 at a summer camp in New York's Adirondacks, The God of the Woods opens when a counselor finds a camper missing from her bunk, the daughter of the wealthy family that owns the camp, and the second child of that family to vanish.
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