After her eccen­tric mother’s death, young Arva House moves to a close-knit out­port with hopes of escap­ing the past that plagues her. But tan­gled rumors fol­low, and she soon becomes the object of spec­u­la­tion.

Crav­ing a sense of sta­bil­ity, Arva makes hasty choices, and finds her­self enmeshed in a net laden with deceit, infi­delity, and latent hos­til­ity.

Only when the man she thought she loved takes her apart, does she real­ize that all of her unique fea­tures some­how fit together to form a whole.

 Praise for Unraveling Arva

Selected as a ‘Top Ten Mystery Pick’, Globe and Mail

“This is a superb first novel from an excit­ing new Cana­dian tal­ent. Lun­dri­gan takes on one of the most dif­fi­cult tasks in fic­tion: She cre­ates a mys­tery out of the psy­chol­ogy of a sin­gle char­ac­ter.”
Mar­garet Can­non, Globe and Mail

“A blend of magic real­ism and spot-on ver­nac­u­lar.“
Joan Sul­li­van, The Telegram

“The author’s voice is a slow melt. Unrav­el­ing Arva teases every expe­ri­ence for sen­sory detail.“
Paul But­ler, Atlantic Books Today

“Nicole Lun­dri­gan is a nat­ural sto­ry­teller in the tra­di­tion of Donna Mor­ris­sey.”
Helen Fog­will Porter, Author of Jan­u­ary, Feb­ru­ary, June or July