The Queen by Nick Cutter

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity's been missing for over a month. Most people in town even the police think she's dead.

Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one anotherexcept for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshedand death.

And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story therealstory. In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend a person she never truly knew at all(From Gallery Books)

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Craig Davidson writes horror under the pen name Nick Cutter. He has written several novels, including Cataract City, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2013, Rust and Bone, which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature film, The Fighter and Sarah Court. His memoir Precious Cargo was defended by Greg Johnson on Canada Reads 2018.

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