{"product_id":"the-scarlet-dress-paperback","title":"The Scarlet Dress - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouise Douglas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest chilling, unputdownable novel, from the Richard \u0026amp; Judy bestseller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and her memory still casts a long shadow.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e'The past was like water. Once the tide turned, you couldn't hold it back.'\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the long, hot summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands. She befriends Marnie, a shy, damaged little girl whose father is the park's caretaker and whose mother died a few months earlier. Will, whose mother runs the bar, falls in love with Alice, and is unbearably jealous of anyone else she sees. Tensions rise until one evening Alice disappears from her caravan. She's never seen again, and only her scarlet dress is found washed up on the shore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quarter of a century later, the town is run down and nobody comes there anymore. Mr and Mrs deVillars, former owners of the holiday park, have passed the failing business onto their son Guy, who promptly sells the land for development. Builders clearing the land to create an expanse of executive homes uncover human bones. It has to be Alice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill and Marnie's lives were entirely shaped by what happened that summer, and now Alice has been found, they must struggle to pin down their memories, to escape the secrets of the past, the lies they told and the unbearable guilt they're both carrying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey need to find out what happened to Alice. Who killed her? And why?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Louise Douglas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A brilliantly written, gripping, clever, compelling story, that I struggled to put down. The vivid descriptions, the evocative plot and the intrigue that Louise created, which had me constantly asking questions, made it a highly enjoyable, absolute treasure of a read.' Kim Nash on \u003cem\u003eThe Scarlet Dress \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A tender, heart-breaking, \u003cstrong\u003epage-turning \u003c\/strong\u003eread' Rachel Hore on \u003cem\u003eThe House by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The \u003cstrong\u003eperfect combination \u003c\/strong\u003eof page-turning thriller and deeply emotional family story. \u003cstrong\u003eSuperb\u003c\/strong\u003e.' Nicola Cornick \u003cem\u003eon The House by the Sea\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Kept me guessing until the last few pages and the \u003cstrong\u003eexplosive ending \u003c\/strong\u003etook my breath away.' C.L. Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Accident \u003c\/em\u003eon \u003cem\u003eYour Beautiful Lies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Beautifully written, \u003cstrong\u003echillingly atmospheric \u003c\/strong\u003eand utterly compelling, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret by the Lake\u003c\/em\u003e is Louise Douglas at her brilliant best' Tammy Cohen, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Broken\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cstrong\u003eA master of her craft\u003c\/strong\u003e, Louise Douglas ratchets up the tension in this haunting and exquisitely written tale of buried secrets and past tragedy.' Amanda Jennings\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003eSworn Secret\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A clammy, atmospheric and suspenseful novel, it builds in tension all the way through to the \u003cstrong\u003estartling final \u003c\/strong\u003epages.' \u003cem\u003eSunday Express, S Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 366\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.91 x 7.81 x 5.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47411973488818,"sku":"9781838892821","price":21.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0c06cb46773311050c5453905edc2ab3.webp?v=1778311863","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-scarlet-dress-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}