A suspense novel set in a small, high desert town in southern California, for fans of Liz Moore’s Long Bright River and Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places.

THE SEER
by Samantha Jayne Allen
St. Martin’s Minotaur, March 2027
(via Dystel Goderich & Bourret)

Told in alternating timelines, THE SEER is about a TV psychic who disappears after leading a search for a missing teacher, and the psychic’s daughter, who is now called upon by investigators for help reexamining her mother’s role in the decades-old cold case.

THE SEER is both a gripping mystery and a heart-wrenching story about the push and pull between family and the self, between cold truth and tantalizing fiction.

“Riveting and atmospheric, Samantha Jayne Allen’s THE SEER is a taut and brilliantly plotted mystery that gripped me from the start and held me captive through every twist and turn. Rich in character and full of heart, this is a book I won’t soon forget.” –Kimi Cunningham Grant, USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods & The Nature of Disappearing

“Like its titular character, THE SEER drew me in with just a crook of a finger, letting me go only when it had scoured my soul. Samantha Jayne Allen has written a rare breed of thriller: one with a mystery so compelling you want to race through to the ending to discover the truth, but written with magnetic, sensitive prose, enough to slow you down to taste the desert air of Tehachapi on your tongue. You won’t be able to put this down.” —Melissa Larsen, USA Today bestselling author of The Lost House

Samantha Jayne Allen is the author of the Annie McIntyre Mysteries. Her debut novel, Pay Dirt Road, won the Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing, and the Tony Hillerman Prize for Best First Mystery Set in the Southwest. She has an MFA in fiction from Texas State University, and her writing has been published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Common, and Electric Literature.