“A young woman learns the limits of passion in this tantalizing historical suspense novel. The novel blooms into an intoxicating sapphic thriller replete with Daphne du Maurier–worthy descriptions of Cornwall and sharp observations about a pleasure-loving society in decline. It’s a dark delight.”

“Propulsive and heart-stopping: a story about desire as a weapon.”

“Hand has established herself as one of the most reliably innovative storytellers working the horror and gothic fiction space. This year, we get one of her most seductive novels yet, a portrait of concentrated passion between two young women on the run through the English countryside, washed up in a world of glamor and transgression on the edges of society.”

“Readers of the acclaimed A Haunting on the Hill know that Hand is a master of gothic set dressing, and [her] narration offers du Maurier-esque rewards through matchless descriptions of period attire, decor, and mores … In the book’s last hundred pages, corpses are piling up, and Ledges assumes some of the mystique of Rebecca’s Manderley. A glimmering gothic treasure.”

“Hand pays homage to gothic literature and England’s postwar, bohemian Bright Young Things social set, evoking the period’s glamorous excesses and social dangers with atmospheric menace and knife-edged desire… Immersed in the Bright Young Things’ glamour and daring flaunting of social rules, Olivia and Tamsin’s wildness grows darker and more powerful as they eliminate threats to trap them in society’s expectations. Olivia’s unfamiliarity with the social scene at Ledges infuses a layer of wrong-footedness into the story that will shake readers’ confidence in her risky plays. Hand tops her masterful storytelling in A Haunting on the Hill with this must-read.”