Hemlock

Melissa Faliveno

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Little Brown and Company

Date

January 20, 2026

Fiction
Literary

A woman haunted by a dark inheritance returns to the woods where her mother vanished.

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Positive Autumn West,
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Chilling ... A haunting story about generational legacies, both good and bad.

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Doesn’t have the taut pacing one might expect of a story that should be suffused with dread and suspense ... A debut novel that can’t quite tame its wild and promising elements.

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