title: Cold Light: A Novel
author:  Jenn Ashworth 
description: Evokes a damaged mind with the empathy and confidence of Ruth Rendell. (The Times (London))<br /><br />Hugely readable debut novel [] about the inability to know others and ourselves. (The Independent)<br /><br />Extremely intense and powerfully intriguing. (Waterstone's)<br /><br />Ashworth has the rare gift of being able to make her reader feel perverse and voyeuristic, implicated somehow in the tragedy laid out on the pages. (Sunday Times (London))<br /><br />A grimly atmospheric mystery. (Sunday Express (London))<br /><br />A psychological thriller of the first order. (The Age (Australia))<br /><br />Another cleverly skewed tale told from the self-conscious perspective of an outsider... arrestingly observant... Ashworths second book confirms that the first was no one-off... her talent could take her a long way (The Guardian)<br /><br />A wonderful tale, beautifully told. (Bella)<br /><br />A chilling, blackly funny novel with a surreal edge about the intensity of teenage friendship. (Grazia)
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  _The Cold Light of Mourning_
  
    
  
   _The Cold Light_
  
   _of Mourning_
  
    
    
  
  Elizabeth J. Duncan
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
  ![](Images/image00137.jpeg) Minotaur Books ![](Images/image00139.jpeg) New
  York
  
    
    
  
    
    
    
    
  
  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events
  portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are
  used fictitiously.
  
  A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.
  
  An imprint of St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
  
  THE COLD LIGHT OF MOURNING. Copyright © 2009 by Elizabeth J. Duncan. All
  rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information,
  address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
  
  [_www.thomasdunnebooks.com_](http://www.thomasdunnebooks.com)
  
  [ _www.minotaurbooks.com_](http://www.minotaurbooks.com)
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Duncan, Elizabeth J.
  
  The cold light of mourning / Elizabeth J. Duncan.—1st ed.
  
  > p. cm.
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55853