Author

Publication

2014 - St. Martin's Press, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

88,500 words, Guess

Page Count

354 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.6
  • LCCPS3611.E4245 S86 2014
  • LCCPS3611.E4245S86 2014

Description

"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. In the third mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree--a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments--a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due"--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Bell Elkins novels -- 3

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  • Summer of the deadSt. Martin's Press2014-01-01
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