Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014
Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017
Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015
Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacôme for Best Crime Novel 2014
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017

A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.

A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls.

It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary ... Read morePond, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air.

Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blonde Lolitas. Life seems idyllic.

But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...