'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.'
When nineteen-year-old Wendy White disappears, the small town of Haeden, New York, is shaken to its core. The police are unable to trace the missing waitress; everyone assumes that she has run away. But, six months later, Wendy's tortured body is found in the nearby woods. She has only been dead for a matter of days.
With no one willing to talk, the investigation slows to a halt. But local reporter Stacy Flynn and high school student Alice Piper have their own reasons for finding out what really happened.
The truth behind Wendy's disappearance has a devastating effect on the town: what was once a rural idyll is now the backdrop to murder, violence and revenge.
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Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
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Published: 07/02/2012
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ISBN: 9781446474990
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Length: 304 Pages
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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A mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Booklist
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A passionately angry ... and shocking book. Cara Hoffman not only discovers the heart of darkness in small town Haeden, but brilliantly dissects it.
Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Sister
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Beautiful ... what begins as the suspenseful story of a rural American murder grows into a dark, disquieting and urgently fascinating examination of the violence and concealment practised by a whole society ... this is an impassioned, intelligent and important work of art.
Chris Cleave
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Intelligent and gripping stuff
Financial Times
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Dark, atmospheric tale of murder in a small-town world.
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