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When an infant’s body is found in the woods at Ridgedale’s university campus, the small town is thrown into turmoil. Freelance journalist Molly Anderson, recently relocated to Ridgedale and grieving her own lost child, is hired to cover the case for the local paper. As she digs deeper, she discovers a string of unreported sexual assaults that stretch back twenty years.
Simultaneously, high‑school dropout Sandy searches for her volatile, missing mother, while PTA president Barbara struggles to support her young son who is suddenly experiencing alarming outbursts. Told from the perspectives of Molly, Barbara, and Sandy, Kimberly McCreight’s novel intertwines their stories, revealing that the deepest betrayals often come from those closest to us and that the past inevitably resurfaces.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Kimberly McCreight
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