“The Jessica Jones star makes an auspicious literary debut with Bonfire, spinning a suspenseful, psychologically gripping story.” - Entertainment Weekly

Bonfire is dark, disturbing, and compulsively readable.” -Ruth Ware, bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10 “I burned through Krysten Ritter's hugely accomplished debut. With tantalizing twists, slow-burning suspense, and a remote rural town of just five claustrophobic square miles, Bonfire is a dark exploration of what happens when your past and present collide. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret-a ritual called “The Game”-it will threaten reputations, and lives, in the community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town’s most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens’s biggest scandal from more than a decade ago, involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends-just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Ībby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions.

Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small-town roots. “A phenomenal, haunting debut.”-Gillian Flynn

Bonfire by Krysten Ritter