A Cry from the Dark – Robert Barnard

From acclaimed British crime writer Robert Barnard comes a masterfully crafted novel of psychological suspense, buried family secrets, and creeping dread. Bettina Whitelaw, a celebrated Australian-born novelist now living a quiet, respectable life in London, believes she has long since outrun the shadows of her early years. Her tranquility is shattered when an anonymous, ominous letter arrives, threatening to expose dark truths about her childhood in the remote Australian outback during the turbulent years of World War II.

As long-suppressed memories begin to resurface and a series of unsettling, unexplained incidents disrupt her daily life, Bettina realizes that someone is determined to destroy everything she has built. Forced to confront a past filled with silence, guilt, and unspoken betrayals, she must untangle a decades-old mystery before the threat escalating around her turns deadly.