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About the Author

Danya Kukafka is a graduate of New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. She currently works as an assistant editor at Riverhead books. Girl in Snow is her first novel.

Reviews

A perfectly paced and tautly plotted thriller. Danya Kukafka’s misfit characters are richly drawn, her prose is both elegant and eerie – this is an incredibly accomplished debut
*Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water *

Stark, utterly compulsive with a compelling, unique writing style. This thriller blew me away
*Kate Hamer, author of The Girl in the Red Coat*

A sensational debut - great characters, mysteries within mysteries, and page-turning pace. Highly recommended
*Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series*

A dark and elegant thriller set in small-town America
*Mail on Sunday*

A creepy, psychological drama set in a snowbound Colorado high school
*GQ*

The beautiful writing, perfect pacing and gripping plot made Girl In Snow a standout for me.
*Good Housekeeping*

Captivating
*Marie Claire*

With a knack for writing oh-so-real teenage characters and underline-worthy prose, [Kukafka] weaves a tale of voyeurism and obsession that's impossible to put down
*W Magazine*

Kuafka’s bewitching first novel spins a spell of mournful confessions around a Twin Peaks-like centerpiece. In [her] capable hands, villainy turns out to be everywhere and nowhere, a DNA that could be found under the fingernails of everybody’s hands
*New York Times (Editor’s Choice)*

An intricate, seductive murder mystery, in which a single awful crime exposes conflicts and traumas in an entire community . . . Girl in Snow is not just an impressive debut but one of the best literary mysteries to come along in some time
*BookPage*

A haunting, lyrical novel about love, loss, and terror . . . The world Kukafka so masterfully creates is suspenseful and electrifying; I was willing to follow her wherever she took me'
*Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls *

‘A propulsive mystery set in a suburban community marked by unsettling voyeurism. Danya Kukafka patiently reveals layers of her characters’ inner lives – their ugliness and vulnerabilities – in prose that sparkles and wounds. I couldn’t put this one down’
*Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers*

Elegiac and involving . . . engagingly told . . . its endearing characters’ struggles linger in memory after this affecting work is done
*Wall Street Journal*

Written with raw immediacy, each character is complex, aching and ashamed, for different reasons . . . a quietly taut thriller concerned with the secrets we keep from our closest loved-ones and even from ourselves . . . keeps hold of the reader long after the final denouement
*Shelf Awareness*

This brooding and intense thriller will plunge readers into a dark world they may not want to enter - but they may be unable to tear themselves free
*Booklist*