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Laura McHugh

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in Fort Madison, Iowa, The United States

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Fiction, Suspense, Mystery

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Laura McHugh's debut novel, The Weight of Blood, won an International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, a Silver Falchion Award for Best First Novel: Literary Suspense, and the Missouri Author Award for Fiction. The Weight of Blood was named a best book of the year by BookPage, the Kansas City Star, and the Sunday Times (UK), and was a GoodReads Choice Awards nominee for Best Mystery and Best Debut. Her second novel, Arrowood, has been nominated for an International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel.

McHugh lives in Missouri with her husband and children.

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Average rating: 3.74 · 23,855 ratings · 3,095 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Weight of Blood 3.74 avg rating — 18,724 ratings — published 2014 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arrowood 3.76 avg rating — 5,112 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Het gewicht van bloed by Laura McHugh (Goodreads Author), Inge de Heer (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les Jumelles D'Arrowood 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	City Baker's Guide to Country Living / Hostage Taker / Billy and Me / Arrowood (Reader's Digest Select Editions, Volume 6, 2016) by Louise Miller (Goodreads Author), Stefanie Pintoff (Goodreads Author) , Giovanna Fletcher (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Arrowood

Arrowood: A Novel

My second novel, ARROWOOD, will be out July 5th in the US and June 16th in the UK. I will be giving away some ARCs in the near future! :)

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Quotes by Laura McHugh

“You grow up feeling the weight of blood, of family. There's no forsaking kin. But you can't help when kin forsakes you or when strangers come to be family.”
― Laura McHugh, The Weight of Blood

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“...my mom always telling me that a man with clean nails hides his dirt on the inside.”
― Laura McHugh, The Weight of Blood

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“I took in the thick night air, the sweet smell of honeysuckle, the chirping of frogs, to impress the moment in the folds of my memory, preserve it like a flower between pages of a book. To remember: This is how it feels to be happy.”
― Laura McHugh, The Weight of Blood

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June BoTM ~ Thriller Theme ~ 1st Poll.

Top 5 books move on to the 2nd poll.

Bird Box

by Josh Malerman

7 votes, 10.6%

Those Girls

by Chevy Stevens

6 votes, 9.1%

Tell No One

by Harlan Coben

6 votes, 9.1%

Six Years

by Harlan Coben

6 votes, 9.1%

A Tap on the Window

by Linwood Barclay

5 votes, 7.6%

The Weight of Blood

by Laura McHugh

4 votes, 6.1%

Lock In

by John Scalzi

4 votes, 6.1%

The Quiet Game

by Greg Iles

4 votes, 6.1%

A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

3 votes, 4.5%

The Bat

by Jo Nesbø

3 votes, 4.5%

The Chemistry of Death

by Simon Beckett

3 votes, 4.5%

Along Came a Spider

by James Patterson

3 votes, 4.5%

You Should Have Known

by Jean Hanff Korelitz

3 votes, 4.5%

The Stranger You Seek

by Amanda Kyle Williams

2 votes, 3.0%

The Memory Box

by Eva Lesko Natiello

2 votes, 3.0%

He Kills Me, He Kills Me Not

by Lena Diaz

2 votes, 3.0%

Afterwards

by Rosamund Lupton

2 votes, 3.0%

House of Echoes

by Brendan Duffy

1 vote, 1.5%

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