Gathering

''Britain''s female Stephen King returns with a sparkling, yet terrifying story...Brilliant'' DAILY MAIL ''An incredibly exciting novel, tightly plotted and brilliantly tense, with an atmosphere you could eat with a spoon'' STUART TURTON ''A cracking read and such assured writing. She just gets better and better!'' SARAH PINBOROUGH --- WELCOME TO DEADHART. ALASKA. POPULATION 673. LIVING. In a small Alaskan town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and the blood drained from his body. The brutality of the murder of chillingly echoes a killing from twenty-five years ago. Out-of-state detective Barbara Atkins is brought in to assist the sheriff, Jensen Tucker, who investigated the original case. However, the inhabitants of Deadhart believe they know who is responsible: one of the nearby vampyr colony who live in an old mining settlement deep in the mountains. Barbara is under pressure to