Heather Young
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
A body burns in the high desert hills. A boy walks into a fire station, pale with the shock of a grisly discovery. A middle school teacher worries when her colleague is late for work. By days end, when the body is identified as local math teacher Adam Merkel, a small Nevada town will be rocked to its core by a brutal and calculated murder.--
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The delicacy of [Young's] writing elevates the drama and gives her two central characters depth and backbone... For all the beauty of Young's writing, her novel is a dark one...And the murder mystery that drives it is as shocking as anything you're likely to read for a good long while."
— New York Times Book Review
A stunning novel that examines the price of loyalty, the burden of regret, the meaning of
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