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The Long and Faraway Gone follows private investigator Wyatt as he returns to a 1986 murder‑sheathed Oklahoma City movie‑theater robbery that claimed six employees and left one survivor. Twenty‑five years later, the echoes of that unsolved crime and a vanished teenage girl from the State Fair haunt the living. Wyatt pieces together cold case evidence, while Julianna fights her own pain over her sister Genevieve’s disappearance. Their parallel quests pull them into a tangled web of memory, stalking, and the lingering impact of violence, forcing them to confront the painful truths that could free them or destroy them.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: Louis Berney
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