They Did Bad Things covers all the 'dunnits'- who, what, why, where, and how-and you’ll want to read to the end to find out all the answers.”-Raymond Benson, author of Blues in the Dark and The Secrets on Chicory Lane Forry creates a chilly, claustrophobic thriller with a group of misfit characters who not only have a history together but also a bucketful of secrets. “As ingenious as Knives Out, as twisted as Gone Girl, They Did Bad Things is a very good thing indeed.”-Paul Witcover, author of Tumbling After and finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award ' Forry does a fine job keeping the surprises coming in rapid succession, making this life-like game of Clue one that will be very hard to predict when the envelope is opened and all is revealed.'- bookreporter This is one for fans of Lucy Foley's The Hunting Party.'- Booklist The solution to the past and present mysteries involves a well-executed twist. Agatha Christie fans won’t want to miss this one.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review

Forry expertly maintains the nail-biting suspense while fully developing her characters.

'A superior riff on And Then There Were None. They Did Bad Things is a deviously clever psychological thriller about the banality of evil and the human capacity for committing horror. They are given one choice: confess to their crimes or die. Trapped inside with no way out and no signal to the outside world, the now forty-somethings fight each other-and the unknown mastermind behind their gathering-as they confront the role they played in their housemate’s death. Twenty years later, all five of them arrive-lured separately under various pretenses-at Wolfheather House, a crumbling, secluded mansion on the Scottish isle of Doon. The remaining five all knew it wasn’t, and though they went on with their lives, the truth of what happened to their sixth housemate couldn’t stay buried forever.

His death was ruled an accident by the police. In 1995, six university students moved into the house at 215 Caldwell Street. Months later, one of them was found dead on the sofa the morning after their end-of-year party. And Then There Were None meets The Last Time I Lied in this dark and twisty psychological thriller-now in paperback

They Did Bad Things by Lauren A. Forry