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A riveting and provocative page-turner: a novel of stunning economy and momentum by a writer poised for wide discovery.
Knopf
June 2006
Featuring: Diana Duprey
304 pages
ISBN: 0307263665
Hardcover
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Elisabeth Hyde has taken a powerful moral predicament and
constructed around it a richly layered, compulsively
readable novel about a murder in a small Colorado town,
about the choices we make and the way their unintended
consequences ripple through our lives. Two weeks before Christmas, Diana Duprey, an outspoken
abortion doctor, is found floating in her pool, a bruise the
size of a golf ball visible through her dark curls. A
national figure, Diana inspired passion and ignited tempers,
never more so than on the day of her death. Her husband, Frank, an attorney in the D.A.'s office for
more than twenty years, had fought bitterly with her on the
day of her murder. Yet to reveal the nature of their fight
would cost him not only his career but something greater
still--a relationship he will go to any lengths to protect.
Diana's daughter, Megan, a college freshman, had also
quarreled with Diana that day, and her role in her mother's
murder will prove more significant than she ever could have
anticipated. The Reverend Stephen O'Connell, founder of the
town's pro-life coalition, obviously had issues with Diana,
but his anger extended beyond the political to the
personal--namely, Dr. Duprey's involvement with his own
troubled teenager. Meanwhile, the detective on the case
grapples to make sense of it all. His investigation
implicates many in this town and reveals a series of gross
miscalculations, each one challenging what we know, or think
we know, about community, fidelity, justice, and love.
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