We Are All the Same in the Dark

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ΓÇó PEOPLE PICK ΓÇó OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION ΓÇó The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas townΓÇÖs legendary cold case in this superb,atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans ΓÇ£If you only read one thriller this yearlet it be this one. Psychologically absorbingoriginal and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöElin Hilderbrand#1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers ItΓÇÖs been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappearedleaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the townΓÇÖs Baptist churchthe police stationand in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. MeanwhileTruΓÇÖs brotherWyattlives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family housecleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime. When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelionsmaking silent wisheshe believes she is a sign. The townΓÇÖs youngest copOdette Tuckerbelieves she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette canΓÇÖt look away. She shares a wound that wonΓÇÖt close with the muteone-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru. Desperate to solve both casesOdette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the pastΓÇöthe night her friend disappearedthe night that inspired her to become a copthe night that wrote them all a role in the townΓÇÖs darkviolent mythology. In this twisty psychological thrillerJulia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength. Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark ΓÇ£This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Times (South Africa) ΓÇ£[Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twisthow to break a readerΓÇÖs heart and then begin mending it. ΓÇÿWhatΓÇÖs coming is always unimaginableΓÇÖ OdetteΓÇÖs one-time therapist tells herΓÇÿand by thatI mean just that. It cannot be imagined. WhatΓÇÖs coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.ΓÇÖ ThatΓÇÖs true for this noveltoo.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöThe Dallas Morning News