we are all the same in the dark: a novel  <p><b>national best seller </b><b><i>people</i></b><b> pick </b> <b>optioned by sister pictures for television </b> <b>the discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a texas town’s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally best-selling author of </b><b><i>black-eyed susans</i></b></p> <p><b>“if you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one. psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. i could not turn the pages fast enough.” (elin hilderbrand, number-one </b><b><i>new york times</i></b><b> best-selling author of </b><b><i>28 summers</i></b><b>)</b></p> <p>it’s been a decade since trumanell branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town’s baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. they all promise the same thing: we will find you. meanwhile, tru's brother, wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime.</p> <p>when wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. the town’s youngest cop, odette tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. but odette can’t look away. she shares a wound that won’t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. and she is haunted by her own history with the missing tru.</p> <p>desperate to solve both cases, odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past - the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town’s dark, violent mythology.</p> <p>in this twisty psychological thriller, julia heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.</p> <p><b>praise for </b><b><i>we are all the same in the dark</i></b></p> <p><b>“this chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable.” (</b><b><i>the times</i></b><b>, south africa)</b></p> <p><b>“[julia] heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader’s heart and then begin mending it. ‘what’s coming is always unimaginable,’ odette’s one-time therapist tells her, ‘and by that, i mean just that. it cannot be imagined. what’s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will.’ that’s true for this novel, too.” (</b><b><i>the</i></b> <b><i>dallas morning news</i></b><b>)</b></p>