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The Sugar Man

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With a nod to the classic film Witness, The Sugar Man finds hardbitten cop Dakota Finch on the trail of a serial killer hiding in an insular religious community back in a place – and a past – she thought she had left behind. An unflinching and mesmerizing small town crime story.

Brooding and intricately woven, The Sugar Man delivers a rich tapestry of characters and a deliciously claustrophobic small town setting. Addictive and oh so clever, this book is a masterclass in plotting and I inhaled it in two greedy gulps.

Ali Land, bestelling author of Good Me Bad Me

With The Sugar Man, Obregón delivers a deft and riveting mystery that I genuinely struggled to put down. This one will haunt me for a long time.

Nail-bitingly compelling and utterly engrossing, The Sugar Man keeps you turning the pages as worlds, pasts and secrets collide.

Praise for Nicolás Obregón

Dakota’s world broke in two the day her best friend Flora was murdered – and Dakota has never been able to confess her own dark secret about that day. 
 
Years later, and now a detective, Dakota is struggling to hide her trauma. At a crossroads, she is taken aback to be assigned a case back in her home town. A case that has uncanny echoes of Flora – and a connection to the same nearby Amish-like community, whose faithful flock might just be hiding a murderer. 
 
Dakota’s job needs her to unmask a serial killer. But her heart just needs to finally find out what happened to her best friend…

A serial killer in a small religious cult. A detective who has waited decades for justice. The gripping and heart-breaking new mystery from an exciting breakthrough crime talent - available for pre-order now... 
‘Unflinching and mesmerizing’ - Vaseem Khan 
‘Deep, dark, and irresistible’ - A.J. Finn 
'I inhaled it in two greedy gulps’- Ali Land 
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 Dakota Finch never really recovered from the day her best friend was murdered. Dakota and Flora were best friends – and Dakota has never confessed her own dark secret about what she did that day. 
 
 Years later, Dakota has become a detective, hiding her broken heart behind a rock-hard shell. When her latest misdemeanour sees her re-assigned back to her small home town, she can’t help but think it could be her chance to finally catch Flora’s killer – a man who’s only ever be known as “the Sugar Man”. 
 
 When another body is found, stirring up memories of her last summer with Flora, Dakota realises the truth may be hiding in the secretive Amish-like cult based in the nearby woodland. 
 
 But this is a killer who has stayed hidden for decades, and they won’t hesitate to kill again to protect their darkest secret… 
More Praise for The Sugar Man 
‘Nail-bitingly compelling and utterly engrossing’ - Tim Glister 
 ‘This one will haunt me for a long time’ - Anna Bailey 
‘Addictive and oh so clever, this book is a masterclass in plotting’ - Ali Land 
‘How exquisitely rare to read a novel as original as Nicolas Obregón’s latest: a profoundly spooky thriller soaked in honey and horror, sugar and shivers’ - A.J. Finn

Dakota Finch never really recovered from the day her best friend was murdered. 
 
But she has also never confessed her own dark secret about what she did that day. 
 
 Years later, Dakota has become a detective, hiding her broken heart behind a rock-hard shell. When her latest misdemeanour sees her re-assigned back to her small home town of Nectar, she can’t help but think it could be her chance to finally catch Flora’s killer – a man who’s only ever been known as the “Sugar Man”. 
 
 When another body is found, stirring up memories of her last summer with Flora, Dakota realises the truth may be hiding in the secretive religious cult based in the nearby woodland. 
 
 But this is a killer who has stayed hidden for decades, and he won’t hesitate to kill again…

Nicolás Obregón grew up between London and Madrid. While in Japan for his job, he learned of the unsolved Miyazawa Family Murders, which informed his first novel, Blue Light Yokohama. It is also the focus of his Universal Audio true crime podcast, FACELESS. His short story, Colibrí, features in the anthology, Both Sides: Stories From the Border, nominated for an Anthony Award, while Blue Light Yokohama was nominated for the T. Jefferson Parker Award.

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With a nod to the classic film Witness, The Sugar Man finds hardbitten cop Dakota Finch on the trail of a serial killer hiding in an insular religious community back in a place – and a past – she thought she had left behind. An unflinching and mesmerizing small town crime story.

Brooding and intricately woven, The Sugar Man delivers a rich tapestry of characters and a deliciously claustrophobic small town setting. Addictive and oh so clever, this book is a masterclass in plotting and I inhaled it in two greedy gulps.

With The Sugar Man, Obregón delivers a deft and riveting mystery that I genuinely struggled to put down. This one will haunt me for a long time.

Nail-bitingly compelling and utterly engrossing, The Sugar Man keeps you turning the pages as worlds, pasts and secrets collide.

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