The Serpent Dance: A Twisty Murderous Midsummer Read

Sofia Slater

• Sofia Slater’s first novel, Auld Acquaintance, was published in November 2022 and has sold over 2k HBs; the paperback is coming out in November 2023

• Auld Acquaintance had quotes from SJ Watson and Ellery Lloyd, was picked as ‘One to Watch’ in the Bookseller, and strong reviews in The Times, the Daily Mail, Literary Review and The Critic

• The Serpent Dance is her second novel; set at midsummer in a village in Cornwall, it marries the intricate plotting of Agatha Christie with the atmosphere and characterisation of Daphne du Maurier

• We are publishing it on around the summer solstice, when the book is set