Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling Paperback Advanced Copy Suspense Thriller

Before the Ruins by Victoria Gosling Book Advanced Readers Copy (ARC) Paperback A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French & Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives. It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David— charming & unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy & Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game-half treasure hunt, half friendly deception-begins. But the Game becomes much bigger than the necklace, growing to encompass years of secrets, lies, and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal. Meticulously plotted and gorgeously written, Before the Ruins is a page-turner of the highest order about the sealed-off places in our pasts and the parts of ourselves waiting to be retrieved from them. Before the Ruins book by Victoria Gosling; mystery adult fiction thriller suspense crime debut contemporary British literature Before the Ruins advanced edition uncorrected proof