Gear up for Halloween! Fear and Desolation in New Jersey Pine Barrens?! Check out Edgar Award-winning Caitlin Mullen’s new mystery/thriller HEATHER recently profiled in The New York Times Book Review, here, as she takes us on a trip to “the scariest place in New Jersey” the 1.1 million acre-swathe of land known as the Pine Barrens.

As her Celadon publisher writes: “A mystery in the vein of Chris Whitaker and Liz Moore, HEATHER is set in New Jersey’s legendary Pine Barrens and inspired by real events, following an ambitious female chief of police thrust into a cold case that hits shockingly close to home and a seemingly perfect mother haunted by a choice she made as a desperate teenager decades ago, examining the complexities of motherhood, sisterhood, friendship, and the life-changing power of a shattering secret.”

Caitlin Mullen is the author of Please See Us, which won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was named a New York Times Best Crime Novel in 2020. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and children.