The Underneath

“Winter is the perfect season during which to grind your teeth into a snowy powder as you tear through a menacing thriller set in rural Vermont. Kay is a former war correspondent who retreats to a small town with her children to chill out. The house she rents is fringed with maples and sits on acres of forest; it has poor cellphone service (warning sign No. 1) and a hidden crawl space in one of the bathrooms (warning sign No. 2)… Other topics covered include drug trafficking, adultery and logging. The prose is so dark it’s practically burnt!”
—Molly Young, New York Times

“Finn does an excellent job of keeping the reader guessing, and the tension in the narrative always comes across as organic, never manipulative. The Underneath is an excellent thriller, and Finn has a gift for prose that’s hard-boiled but not clichéd. Perhaps most important, her characters are true to life… There’s much to admire about The Underneath, and Finn’s third novel proves that she’s deeply original, a writer who’s not content with rehashing old tropes that have become overly familiar in some thrillers.”
—Michael Schaub, Star Tribune

“A musk of sex and menace soaks three narrative strands, expertly braided… Finn writes with a phrasing flare on par with Lauren Goff’s… Her curiosity and dread drive the novel and move her toward a terrifying denouement… Finn puts her readers on the knife’s edge.”
—Kirkus Reviews, starred

“The follow up to Finn’s smash hit, The Gloaming, The Underneath is a thriller you probably shouldn’t read if you live, uh, alone. Kay Ward, a former war journalist, attempts to settle into a calmer life out in the wilds of Vermont. But when her husband is called away on business and she discovers a crawl space underneath their home, Kay becomes worried that something, something horrible, happened to the previous tenants.”
—Bustle