The Hunt

From the author of Real Bad Things and Cottonmouths, a Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017, comes the darkly suspenseful tale of a small-town Easter tradition and its murderous secrets. For seventeen years, a serial murderer has used the Presley, Arkansas, Annual Hunt for the Golden Egg to find prey. Or at least thats what some people believe. Others, like the towns devoted Eggheads, relish the tradition and think the deaths are just unfortunate accidents. But for Nell Holcomb, the towns annual Hunt dredges up a particularly painful memory: her brothers death, long believed to be the Hunters first kill. Nell has been caring for her nephew since then, trying to keep him safe and trying to conceal the role she played in his fathers death. Most importantly, shes been trying to avoid the Huntdespite the clashes that erupt in town over the event and her best friends obsession with winning the big prize. As Easter draws near and the towns frenzy escalates, Nell must face her past and the Hunt as the danger once again veers close to home.