# The Unknown, Vol. 1

By **Riley Sager**

- ISBN-13: 9781399742146
- Series: [The Unknown](https://mybookbandits.com/series/the-unknown)
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Pages: 384
- Published: 4 Aug 2026
- Language: eng
- Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Thrillers, Political, Psychological, Hard-Boiled

## About this book

Five dresses hanging from the branches of an old oak: that was all that remained in 1926, when the women of New Avalon, a commune of spiritual mediums on an island in Vermont's Lake Faraday, vanished. A century later, struggling actress Marin Keane is cast in a film about the mystery. The part comes with a week's research trip to the island, alongside legendary actress Violet Wright and much-hyped director Ronan Peters.

Strange noises and old symbols soon unsettle the cast, and when a health emergency leaves them stranded, the disappearances begin again. Marin turns to the diary of Daisy Rue, one of the vanished, which tells of a séance gone wrong. This one is for anyone who likes their suspense Gothic and their isolated islands genuinely creepy, never quite sure whether to blame a saboteur or something older.

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