num_pages: 358
description: The astonishing new Mallory novel from the New York Timesbestselling author and one of the most acclaimed crime writers in America.The reviews called it A Play to Die For after the woman was found dead in the front row. It didnt seem so funny the next night when another body was foundthis time the playwrights his throat slashed.Detective Kathy Mallory takes over but no matter what she asks no one seems to be giving her a straight answer. The only personif person is the right wordwho seems to be clear is the ghostwriter. Every night an unseen backstage hand chalks up line changes and messages on a blackboard. And the ghostwriter is now writing Mallory into the play itself a play about a long-ago massacre that may not be at all fictional. MALLORY the blackboard reads. TONIGHTS THE NIGHT. NOTHING PERSONAL.If Mallory cant find out whos responsible heads will roll. Unfortunately one of them may be her own.
language: English
title: It Happens in the Dark
publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons