The Wicked Hour, Alice Blanchard
The Wicked Hour, Alice Blanchard
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The Wicked Hour
A Natalie Lockhart Novel

Author: Alice Blanchard

Narrator: Sophie Amoss

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2020


Synopsis

From the award-winning author of Trace of Evil, a detective dealing with the scars of her past must solve a seemingly unconnected string of murders, and face the impossible question of what to do when the killer may be hiding amongst the ones you know, in Alice Blanchard's The Wicked Hour.

“Lockhart is a relatable new heroine on the police-procedural scene, and one who will appeal to readers of Tana French."—Booklist

The day after Burning Lake’s notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart uncovers a heartbreaking scene—a young woman, dead and lying in a dumpster. There’s no clue to who she is, save for a mystifying tattoo on her arm, and a callus underneath her chin. She’s not from around here. No one knows who she is.

As Natalie retraces the young woman’s steps leading up to her death, she uncovers a deeper, darker horror—a string of murders and disappearances, seemingly unconnected, that may have ties to each other—and explain the abrupt disappearance of her best friend years ago.

As she digs deeper within the mind of the hunter, Natalie finds a darkness she could never have imagined. And as she draws closer to the truth, the killer is weaving a trap for her that may prove inescapable.

A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books

About Alice Blanchard

Alice Blanchard is an award-winning author. She has received a PEN Award, a New Letters Literary Award, a Centrum Artists-in-Residence Fellowship, and a Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction. Her debut novel, Darkness Peering, was a New York Times' Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Best Mystery book. Her work has been published in 17 countries.


Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG on August 11, 2020

THE WICKED HOUR by Alice Blanchard is a police procedural and the second book in the Natalie Lockhart series. To get the most enjoyment from this novel, the first book in the series (TRACE OF EVIL) should be read before starting this one. This is a town that makes the most of its history with witchc......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on August 09, 2021

Review posted on blog: [URL not allowed] It's The Wicked Hour, in Burning Lake, with Halloween in full force. For Detective Natalie Lockhart, that means patrolling throughout the night. As heavy-duty clean-up from the Halloween festivities is required, Detective Lockhart volun......more

Goodreads review by Ash on February 16, 2024

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. DNF at ~50%. This review contains spoilers for Trace of Evil. I read the first book in Alice Blanchard’s Natalie Lockhart series, Trace of Evil, last year when I received an ARC on NetGalley. I......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 27, 2020

Dropped into this series after missing the first one, and I think it would have been better to have the background before diving into this one. However, I enjoyed this police procedural regardless (but now I'm curious about some things so I need to go back and read that first book!). Natalie Lockhart......more