Girl in Snow

A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller. Danya Kukafka’s misfit characters are richly drawn, her prose is both elegant and eerie – this is an incredibly accomplished debut -- Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water
Stark, utterly compulsive with a compelling, unique writing style. This thriller blew me away -- Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat
A sensational debut - great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended -- Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series
A dark and elegant thriller set in small-town America * Mail on Sunday *
A creepy, psychological drama set in a snowbound Colorado high school * GQ *
The beautiful writing, perfect pacing and gripping plot made Girl In Snow a standout for me. -- Joanne Finney, books editor * Good Housekeeping *
Captivating * Marie Claire *
With a knack for writing oh-so-real teenage characters and underline-worthy prose, [Kukafka] weaves a tale of voyeurism and obsession that's impossible to put down * W Magazine *
Kuafka’s bewitching first novel spins a spell of mournful confessions around a Twin Peaks-like centerpiece. In [her] capable hands, villainy turns out to be everywhere and nowhere, a DNA that could be found under the fingernails of everybody’s hands * New York Times (Editor’s Choice) *
An intricate, seductive murder mystery, in which a single awful crime exposes conflicts and traumas in an entire community . . . Girl in Snow is not just an impressive debut but one of the best literary mysteries to come along in some time * BookPage *
A haunting, lyrical novel about love, loss, and terror . . . The world Kukafka so masterfully creates is suspenseful and electrifying; I was willing to follow her wherever she took me' -- Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls
‘A propulsive mystery set in a suburban community marked by unsettling voyeurism. Danya Kukafka patiently reveals layers of her characters’ inner lives – their ugliness and vulnerabilities – in prose that sparkles and wounds. I couldn’t put this one down’ -- Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers
Elegiac and involving . . . engagingly told . . . its endearing characters’ struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done * Wall Street Journal *
Written with raw immediacy, each character is complex, aching and ashamed, for different reasons . . . a quietly taut thriller concerned with the secrets we keep from our closest loved-ones and even from ourselves . . . keeps hold of the reader long after the final denouement * Shelf Awareness *
This brooding and intense thriller will plunge readers into a dark world they may not want to enter - but they may be unable to tear themselves free * Booklist *