New York Times Notable Book
A New York Times Notable Book · People Magazine’s #1 Book of 2024. A thirteen-year-old vanishes from an Adirondack summer camp — and a Van Laar child has disappeared before. Atmospheric, propulsive, and deeply satisfying. The kind of novel you tuck under your arm and can’t put down.
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A New York Times Notable Book · New York Times Best Thriller of 2024 · New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2024 · People Magazine’s #1 Book of the Year · One of Time Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 · One of NPR’s “Books We Love” 2024
Some books pull you in slowly. This one pulls you under.
Early morning, August 1975. A camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Thirteen-year-old Barbara Van Laar — daughter of the powerful family whose name is woven into every corner of the Adirondacks — has vanished. And here’s the chill that lingers: a Van Laar child has disappeared before. Barbara’s older brother went missing fourteen years ago and was never found.
What unfolds is a layered, propulsive story of dynasty, secrets, and the quiet tensions between the privileged and the people who serve them. Liz Moore weaves together multiple timelines and voices with the confidence of a master storyteller, building a world so immersive that Fresh Air‘s Maureen Corrigan called it “extraordinary,” comparing it to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History — high praise, and entirely earned.
The New Yorker praised its “kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries,” and honestly? That tracks. You will lose track of time.
This is the kind of novel that feels perfect tucked under your arm on a foggy Maine morning — the sort of story you carry with you long after the last page. Ambitious, atmospheric, and deeply satisfying.
Extraordinary... The God of the Woods has the kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries.
The God of the Woods has the kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries.
A propulsive, atmospheric thriller... Moore expertly weaves together multiple timelines and a large cast of characters.
Gripping... a multigenerational saga with a mystery at its heart.
Moore's latest is a page-turning thriller with literary ambitions — and it achieves them.
Liz Moore's engrossing novel is set in a summer camp in the Adirondack Mountains in 1975, where the teenage daughter of the wealthy Van Laar family disappears — and it turns out a Van Laar child has vanished before.
One of the most anticipated novels of the summer... Moore delivers a richly atmospheric thriller.
| Weight | 1.05 lbs |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 5.13 × 1.44 × 8.00 in |
| Book Author | Liz Moore |
| Fiction Type | |
| Subject | Family Life, Genre Fiction, Literary, Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Psychological, Psychological Thrillers, Thrillers & Suspense |
| Accolade |
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