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A troubled woman seeking a fresh start in the Scottish countryside believes her neighbour may be behind the strange disturbances in her home in this psychological horror debut for fans of The Lamb and We Used to Live Here.

“The symmetry should have tipped me off.”

After a violent incident at work, Tamsin goes looking for a fresh start in a remote cottage far away from her old life. Here she could make real friends, find a job she loves, become a whole new person, even.

But the solitary cottage is actually a semi-detached, with only a thin wall separating her from a total stranger. Her neighbour is an enigma. Dowdy one moment, vivacious the next, but always wearing an unnerving smile. Tamsin can’t shake the feeling that there’s something wrong with her, especially when she starts experiencing disturbances in her own home.

As the locals share strange stories about her house, and her barely contained paranoia spirals out of control, Tamsin begins to suspect that the past she was so desperate to escape might never let her go.

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The stunning true story of a double homicide in the vibrant native Alaskan Iñupiat community at the arctic edge of the United States—written by the public defender at its center

Rebecca Wright is a defense attorney living in the Lower 48 when she suddenly finds herself a widow and an empty nester. In need of a radical change, she accepts a public defender position in Utqiagvik on Alaska’s North Slope, an oil-rich area the size of Wyoming where the Iñupiat community holds great cultural, political, and economic power. Though she’ll always be a tanik—an outsider—she works hard to gain the trust and friendship of the folks who call this singular place home.

When two well-known sisters, Bernice and Wanda Ipalook, are found murdered, Wright is tasked with representing Amos Lane, a drifter on the short-list of murder suspects. Criminal charges are looming. But this is summer in northern Alaska, the season of the midnight sun, when twenty-four-hour sunlight makes it difficult for witnesses to confirm the time—or even the day—they last saw the sisters, Amos, or anyone else. Wright must navigate an unreliable client, a prosecution willing to entrap her to get a conviction, a budding romance, and a community that believes Amos might deserve a different form of justice from what the tanik legal system can provide.

Weaving a detailed portrait of Utqiagvik alongside Wright’s complex self-portrait of an outsider in an isolated community, Sisters of the Midnight Sun is a riveting true account that brings to vivid life a land at the edge of the habitable world.

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Read or listen to the full interview here!–> https://www.npr.org/2026/07/12/nx-s1-5824394/a-public-defenders-new-book-traces-a-gruesome-double-murder-in-arctic-alaska?fbclid=IwY2xjawTAsHRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFMNDR4ajNMcFFWT1FYQ0Flc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsD6E7BrEUhNHWtZQAbMXxOud-2×5-X4ppyOUIPbp8Qe2gfNbZqx5J3Am3FT_aem__jiY6HwyclQCicTLmW07iQ

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Read the full interview here!–> https://www.scifinow.co.uk/interviews/rhiannon-grist-on-home-sick-folk-horror-and-the-fear-of-coming-home/

HOME SICK releases in the US on 7/14!

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Read the review here!–> https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/sisters-of-the-midnight-sun-review-without-the-cover-of-night-ebaca4b4?mod=djembooks

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Read the interview here!–> https://cardiffstudentmedia.co.uk/quench/literature/home-sick-an-interview-with-rhiannon-grist/

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