An acclaimed, award-winning thriller, published and translated around the world, now freely available on Wattpad. Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challenging terrain. While hiking in the Himalayas, Paul gets more of a rush than he bargained for when he finds the body of a murdered hiker - mutilated in a way he has witnessed once before, in Africa, years ago and thousands of miles away. The police in Nepal, anxious to quell a scandal, close the case and declare the victim a suicide. Only Paul is left to search for answers. He reaches out to his farflung tribe of fellow backpackers for help, and his discoveries lead him to a terrible conclusion: a killer is stalking the international backpacker trail, preying on victims in wild places far beyond the reach of any authorities. A killer whom Paul may already know. Finding the murderer becomes an obsession that leads Paul from Himalayan peaks, through the jungles of Indonesia, across the bleak Sahara desert -- and into some of the darkest places imaginable... Dark Places won the 2005 Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Reviews "You're hooked ... the characters are delightfully delineated ... beautifully controlled ... Evans contrives to slip the necessary specialist net-head detail into the plot without being boring or patronising. He can also pin down a character with a few details deftly brushed in ... A pacy thriller for the 21st century." - The Times "Anyone would enjoy Evans' clever, relentlessly absorbing debut thriller that becomes a lot more than just another serial-killer mystery." - The Ottawa Citizen "In this haunting suspense debut, Evans takes the reader on a page-turning adventure across five continents ... (a) spooky, inventive tale." - Publishers Weekly

Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé si les pensées pouvaient tuer ? Si elles étaient capables de ruiner une vie ? Parce que, finalement, elles ont brisé la mienne. Je m'appelle Addison Elton, je viens d'avoir dix-huit ans et depuis sa rencontre, tout a changé. Je crois que c'est lui qui m'a changée, enfin je doute encore. Des questions sans réponses, puis la vérité, enfin. La vérité n'a fait qu'accentuer ma maladie. Je crois être malade. Mal au cœur. Mal. Je reste souvent au cimetière, face à la tombe de mon père. Je me pose des questions, je me dévoile, je me plains. Mais est-ce que je sais qui est mon père ? Même question, est-ce que je sais qui est Jim ? Qui je suis ? Des remises en question, des doutes, de l'amour et la famille. Bizarrement, tout est lié. Mais pourquoi tout devient si important et si mortel ? La vie est-elle un jeu, pour de vrai ? Existe-t-il un destin ?