Sharp, witty and messed up, Here in the Dark is the razor-sharp literary thriller for readers of Gillian Flynn, Shirley Jackson and Patricia Highsmith

'Impressive' Financial Times
'Terrific' Guardian
'Elegant' Laura Shepperson

By night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan's sharpest literary critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By day, she uses work, sex and psychotropic drugs to keep her comfortably numb.

Desperate for a promotion and at the urging of her editor, she agrees to an interview with David Adler, an enigmatic graduate student. When he later disappears, Vivian soon learns from his devastated fiancée that she was the last person to have seen him alive. The police refuse to investigate his disappearance and Vivian finds herself obsessed with what happened, assuming the role of amateur investigator.

But as she gets closer to the truth about David Adler, she finds that the boundaries between theatre and reality are more tenuous than even she could have believed.

"Alexis Soloski portrays Manhattan's thespian scene and high-end social life in vivid detail with snappy dialogue. This is an impressive debut" - Financial Times

"A sharp, funny and pacy slice of Manhattan noir that manages to be over-the-top and weirdly plausible, with a terrific payoff" - Guardian

"Alexis Soloski’s debut – a sharp, captivating thriller about a cynical theater critic who gets pulled into an investigation of a stranger’s disappearance – is a suspenseful page-turner filled with complex characters. ... Good luck not finishing it in one sitting" - Bustle

"Soloski smoothly transfers her masterful journalistic writing to this novel, creating a classic yet entirely modern noir. Fast-paced, funny, sexy, and witty, Here in the Dark is a satisfying read to the very last word" - Chicago Review of Books