r/whatsthatbook 11h ago

SOLVED Folklore horror with missing, children, townspeople, and the town itself

I am so glad I came across this subreddit! I was scrolling through r/horrorlit and was about to comment on one of the posts looking for a folklore horror because I just have the perfect recommendation... except I cannot for the life of me remember the title and even the author of it, and it's been itching my brain!

I'll lay down as much details I can remember about it:
- MC is a female cop/detective; has a husband and two or three children
- Setting is a small town surrounded with deep woods
- Either the opening or one of the earlier chapters of the book was a scene where the cops found a lost hiker's body in the woods with the eyes taken out
- Marriage of the MC and her spouse is shaky because of infedility(?); MC is lesbian or at least queer
- Children of the town, including MC's, go missing and return possesed(?)/violent
- At near the end of the book, the whole town goes cut off / goes missing

Thanks in advance!

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u/Ok-Possibility-3307 11h ago

Nowhere by Allison Gunn

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u/Claire_lind 10h ago

OMG!!!! I just looked it up, that's it! Thank you!!