You Did Nothing Wrong - by Cg Drews (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Dark domestic suspense meets haunted house horror in this unnerving adult debut guaranteed to keep you awake for days afterward, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Don't Let the Forest In and Hazelthorn

The walls are closing in on her perfect new life.

Single mother Elodie's life has become a fairy tale. She's met Bren, equal parts Golden-retriever-devoted and sinfully handsome. He's whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he's renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect.

Until Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are "hurting" the house. Even Elodie can't ignore it―something strange is going on.

The question is, Is it with the house, or with her son?

And what is Elodie hiding?

"A masterpiece." - Ava Reid

"Brilliantly tense, paranoid, masterfully wrought." - Dawn Kurtagich

"Prepare to have your heartstrings clawed." - T. Marie Vandelly

Review Quotes

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"I don't know what kind of witchcraft C.G. Drews puts into their books, but at this point I've just accepted that if I start one, my entire day is gone." --Grimdark Magazine

"Visceral, haunting, and blisteringly raw, You Did Nothing Wrong is a masterpiece of a gothic thriller with a keen smile and jagged teeth." --Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning

"In this haunted house book where nothing is as it seems, CG Drews balances unflinchingly disturbing horror with deeply empathetic characterizations. I read the first two twisty acts in a blur, and the climactic final third through my fingers, gripped more and more with every unraveling page." --Jennifer Thorne, Bestselling Author of Diavola

"Prepare to have your heartstrings clawed at in this terrifyingly exquisite story of what lengths a parent will go to in order to protect their child from being crushed to death as the walls of their loving home close in." --T. Marie Vandelly, author of Theme Music

"Suspenseful and gripping, with ratcheting tension that crawls under your skin. You Did Nothing Wrong is a dark and terrifying look at motherhood, and Drews's mesmerizing writing is sure to keep you hooked." -- Monika Kim, author of The Eyes Are the Best Part

"CG Drews writes monsters like no other. You Did Nothing Wrong is a brilliantly tense, paranoid, masterfully wrought house of pain where no room is ever as it seems. Reader, watch your step. I loved every second." --Dawn Kurtagich, award-winning author of The Madness and The Thorns

"You Did Nothing Wrong pries open the unique anguish and joy of motherhood and shows us the insides, how such love eclipses the world. The sensory imagery is unrelenting. The emotion is beautifully raw. CG Drews has constructed an addictive story of desperation, young marriage, and family that examines how we renovate the past -- and what a haunted house often really is. This novel drained my heart." --Michael Wehunt, author of The October Film Haunt and Greener Pastures

"Vicious and claustrophobic from the first page! Drews deftly manipulates the darkest innermost desires and also my blood pressure with prose rich enough to eat. An absolute snakebite of a novel." --Neena Viel, author of Listen To Your Sister

About the Author

CG DREWS is the author of the award-winning The Boy Who Steals Houses and the New York Times and Indie Bestseller Don't Let The Forest In, which is also a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, Indie Next Pick, Barnes & Noble YA Book Club Pick, and one of School Library Journal's Best Books of 2024. Their work has been translated into eight languages, received a nomination for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal, and won the 2020 CBCA Honour Award. CG lives in Australia, never sleeps, and is forever buried under a pile of unread books.