One Dark Night

Author/Guide: Hannah Richel

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2025: A party at sunset. A body at sunrise. What happened that night in the woods?

ISBN: 978-1398528000
Genre: Inspired by true events, Mystery

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What you need to know before your trail

When the body of a young woman is discovered in the woods the morning after Halloween, arranged with ritualistic precision, teenager Ellie has more reason than most to be afraid …

As both Ellie’s mum and the local school counsellor, Rachel, must grapple with the terror gripping the community, a tough job that’s made even harder when she realises her daughter is keeping secrets …

Police detective Ben Chase is desperate to solve the murder, but with his daughter Ellie struggling and the noose circling ever tighter, can he catch the killer before they strike again?

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Travel Guide

Sally in the Wood

Sally in the Wood is a curved stretch of road on the Somerset=Wiltshire border that cuts through dense woodland near Bath. Various explanations exists for the location’s strange name and much has been speculated and written about the history and mythology of the area. This novel is loosely inspired by the area and the stories of the Sally in the Wood myth and contains the local real life folly!

Booktrailer Review

Girls from a private school disobey orders and go out in the woods. They are drinking and smoking weed, telling each other stories. One of them is found murdered in a folly…..

Oh this was brimming with atmosphere! Very creepy and enticing like those woods. Very creepy and very nicely done with lots of tension and I did wonder what else I was going to find in that folly!

I love Hannah’s books but it was the fact this was set in a real place with a very strange name and legend attached to it that really got me. Well, this is going to draw a few ghoulish enthusiasts!