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Liepman Literary Agency
Marc Koralnik
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FIND YOU IN THE DARK

Nathan Ripley

For years, he has been illegally buying police files on serial killers and studying them in depth, using them as guides to find missing bodies. He doesn't take any souvenirs, just photos that he stores in an old laptop, and then he turns in the results to the police anonymously. Martin sees his work as a public service, a righting of wrongs that cops have continuously failed to do.

Detective Sandra Whittal sees it differently. On a meteoric rise in police ranks due to her case-closing efficiency, Whittal is suspicious of the mysterious caller—the Finder, she names him—leading the police to the bodies. Even if the Finder isn't the one leaving bodies behind, who's to say that he won't start soon?

On his latest dig, Martin searches for the first kill of Jason Shurn, the early 1990s murderer who may have been responsible for the disappearance of his sister-in-law, whom he never met. But when he arrives at the site, he finds a freshly killed body—a young and recently disappeared Seattle woman—lying among remains that were left there decades ago. Someone else knew where Jason Shurn buried his victims . . . and that someone isn't happy that Martin has been going around digging up his work.

When a crooked cop with a tenuous tie to Martin vanishes, Whittal begins to zero in on the Finder. Hunted by a real killer and by Whittal, Martin realizes that in order to escape the killer's trap, he may have to go deeper into the world of murder than he ever thought.

Naben Ruthnum, winner of the prestigious Journey Prize for his literary fiction, is the author of the forthcoming Curry: Eating, Reading, and Race, from Coach House Books. His pseudonym Nathan Ripley's debut thriller, Find You In the Dark, comes out with Simon & Schuster in 2018. TV/film rights for Find You In the Dark were sold in a pre-empt to eOne. A pilot script based on his story Private Psychological Investigations and written by Ruthnum and Gorrman Lee was recently optioned by Patrick O'Sullivan of New Metric Media. Ruthnum and co-writer Kris Bertin are currently scripting a film in development with Oddfellows Entertainment. Naben's stories and essays have appeared in The Walrus, Hazlitt, Sight & Sound, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, among other places. He lives in Toronto. Visit him at www.nabenruthnum.com or follow him on Twitter @NabenRuthnum.
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Published 2018-03-01 by SIMON AND SCHUSTER Canada

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Atria (June 2018)

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