OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE · The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller · A BBC Two Between the Covers pick
Two childhood best friends. Torn apart by tragedy. Reunited by their search for the truth — even if finding it means losing each other for good.
Monta Clare, Missouri, 1975. Joseph 'Patch' Macauley, born with one eye and raised by a mother he often ends up raising, has his pirate stories. Saint Brown, brought up by her bus-driving grandmother, has her bees. When they find each other, it is clear they have found their person.
Then, late one summer, Patch saves a wealthy girl from being kidnapped — and is taken himself. Saint, broken by his disappearance, gives everything she has over the following years to finding him, and to finding out what really happened in the dark.
Chris Whitaker's epic is a coming-of-age novel, a love story and a serial-killer thriller at once, unfolding across decades on a vast American canvas. The Guardian called it a tour de force; Richard Osman called it wonderful; Gillian Flynn called it an absolute must-read.
About the author
Chris Whitaker is the author of We Begin at the End, Tall Oaks and All the Wicked Girls. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and have won the CWA Gold Dagger, the CWA John Creasey Dagger and the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year. All the Colours of the Dark is in development with Universal Pictures. He was born in London and lives in the UK.
Edition details
- Orion paperback, 592 pages
- Distributed in India by Hachette India
- Paperback published 27 March 2025
