The Dead Girl in 2A: A Novel

*Winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award - Thriller*

*Reading the West Nominee*

This flight will take them somewhere they never expected to go.

Jack Buchanan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver - he just can’t figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn’t in Jake’s line of work and didn’t go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they’ve met before. As their airplane conversation deepens, both struggle to figure out what circumstances could have possibly brought them together. Then, in a revelation that sends Jake reeling, Clara admits she’s traveling to the Colorado mountains to kill herself, and she disappears into the crowded airport immediately after landing.

The Dead Girl in 2A is the story of what happens to Jake and Clara after they get off that plane, and the manipulative figure who has brought them together decades after they first met.

‘A disturbing, propulsive, and satisfying thriller.’ - Kirkus Reviews’

‘Wilson’s forte is graphic horror, but here he edges toward the spooky. Readers of his popular Mister Tender’s Girl (2018) will be intrigued.’ - Booklist

‘Wilson provides plenty of creepy and downright disturbing moments on the way to the unexpectedly heartfelt conclusion. Psychological thriller fans will be well satisfied.’ - Publishers Weekly