In the Dark

This is one case that has haunted Jonathan Stride for thirty years. When he was a teenager, in the summer after his junior year of high school, he fell in love with Cindy Starr, the girl who would become his wife. But that same summer, Cindy’s sister, Laura, was brutally murdered. The police suspected a vagrant of committing the crime, but Stride and Cindy were both convinced that the killer was someone close to Laura. Thirty years later, Laura’s best friend, Tish Verdure, returns to Duluth to write a book about Laura’s death. Tish knows secrets about Cindy that leave Stride questioning his entire past.

“An evocative mystery, one shaded with melancholy and dusted with heartache, and one that reminds readers that life may be brutal and cold, but, in Minnesota at least, we shore ourselves against these truths and we endure.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune