Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong

Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The
invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep
her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled
divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the
house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters
who've fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet,
as though someone tried to claw their way out. . . and failed.
When Laney shows up to investigate with her teenaged niece in tow, she
discovers that her ex, Kit, has also been informed and is there with Jayla, his
sister and her former best friend. Then Sadie, another old high school friend,
charters over with her brother, who's now a cop.
There are tensions and secrets, whispers in the woods, and before long, the
discovery of a hand poking up from the earth. Then the body that goes with
it. . . But by that time, someone has taken off with their one and only means
off the island, and they're trapped with someone - or something - that doesn't
want them leaving the island alive.
A tech mogul gifts his ex-wife their perfect vacation home on a remote island.
You'd think this is a dream come true - but this is a Kelley Armstrong story!
With creepy twists on every page and a unique horror element, it's got an
ending you'll never see coming." -Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor
"With Hemlock Island, Kelley Armstrong stakes a solid claim in the (...)

Kelley Armstrong graduated with a degree in psychology and then studied
computer programming. Now she is a full-time writer and parent, and she lives
with her husband and three children in rural Ontario, Canada. She is the
author of the Rockton mystery series featuring Detective Casey Duncan,
which begins with City of the Lost, and the novel Wherever She Goes . She is
the editor of the young adult anthology Life Is Short and Then You Die

St. Martin's Press
On Sale: Sep 12/23
6.12 x 9.25 • 304 pages
9781250322104 • $23.99 • pb
Fiction / Horror