Ring of Night: A Novel
May 2027 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"This novel is dangerous, devastating, and deeply alive—literary crime fiction at its very best." —Ivy Pochoda, bestselling author of Sing Her Down
After her sister’s body is found in an abandoned house, a young boxer unravels a shocking web of family secrets in a twisty, harrowing crime novel from the literary iconoclast Laura van den Berg.
Sometimes survival is an ugly thing. Especially in Florida.
Tina Chance knows what it takes to succeed: routine, determination, strategy. One of the most promising female boxers in the country, she’s the pride of her heat-and-rain-soaked Florida town, a place of peeling paint and half-empty bars. She couldn’t be more different from her vivacious yet troubled older sister, Angela, who spends her nights drinking in a converted hearse with a group of shady locals. Still, though, she’s Tina’s only sister. And then Angela’s body is found mangled and stuffed into the wall of an abandoned Victorian mansion, and Tina’s world collapses.
Furious with the detectives’ lack of progress, Tina begins a clandestine investigation that takes her into the darkest corners of her town. There are leads—the discovery of a car in a swamp, an ambiguous voicemail—with no answers. Something, no matter how hard she looks, isn’t adding up. That is, until a stranger with a fake name and a secret past arrives in town chasing her own, ostensibly unrelated investigation. Neither woman knows it, but their destinies are already intertwined—and might even unlock the horrific truth of what really happened to Angela and who was responsible.
A hot-blooded and devastating crime thriller that turns as quickly, and unpredictably, as the Florida weather, Laura van den Berg's Ring of Night is a sojourn into the heart of human survival, and a gripping exploration of the line between freedom and fate.
After her sister’s body is found in an abandoned house, a young boxer unravels a shocking web of family secrets in a twisty, harrowing crime novel from the literary iconoclast Laura van den Berg.
Sometimes survival is an ugly thing. Especially in Florida.
Tina Chance knows what it takes to succeed: routine, determination, strategy. One of the most promising female boxers in the country, she’s the pride of her heat-and-rain-soaked Florida town, a place of peeling paint and half-empty bars. She couldn’t be more different from her vivacious yet troubled older sister, Angela, who spends her nights drinking in a converted hearse with a group of shady locals. Still, though, she’s Tina’s only sister. And then Angela’s body is found mangled and stuffed into the wall of an abandoned Victorian mansion, and Tina’s world collapses.
Furious with the detectives’ lack of progress, Tina begins a clandestine investigation that takes her into the darkest corners of her town. There are leads—the discovery of a car in a swamp, an ambiguous voicemail—with no answers. Something, no matter how hard she looks, isn’t adding up. That is, until a stranger with a fake name and a secret past arrives in town chasing her own, ostensibly unrelated investigation. Neither woman knows it, but their destinies are already intertwined—and might even unlock the horrific truth of what really happened to Angela and who was responsible.
A hot-blooded and devastating crime thriller that turns as quickly, and unpredictably, as the Florida weather, Laura van den Berg's Ring of Night is a sojourn into the heart of human survival, and a gripping exploration of the line between freedom and fate.
"This novel is dangerous, devastating, and deeply alive—literary crime fiction at its very best." —Ivy Pochoda, bestselling author of Sing Her Down
After her sister’s body is found in an abandoned house, a young boxer unravels a shocking web of family secrets in a twisty, harrowing crime novel f...
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About the author
Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, The Isle of Youth, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, and of the novels Find Me, The Third Hotel, and State of Paradise. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award and a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, among other honors. She is the director of creative writing at Harvard University and lives with her husband, the writer Paul Yoon, in Hudson, New York.
Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, The Isle of Youth, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, and of the novels Find Me, The Third Hotel, and State of Paradise. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Liv...
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