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A Novel
Shaye Areheart Books
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
368 pages
ISBN: 0307341569
EAN: 9780307341563
Hardcover
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in Γ’β¬ΕThe Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.Γ’β¬Β As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survivedΓ’β¬βand famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, Ben sits in prison, and troubled Libby lives off the dregs of a trust created by well-wishers whoΓ’β¬β’ve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for detailsΓ’β¬βproof they hope may free BenΓ’β¬βLibby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, sheΓ’β¬β’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe sheΓ’β¬β’ll admit her testimony wasnΓ’β¬β’t so solid after all. As LibbyΓ’β¬β’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the narrative flashes back to January 2, 1985. The events of that day are relayed through the eyes of LibbyΓ’β¬β’s doomed family membersΓ’β¬βincluding Ben, a loner whose rage over his shiftless father and their failing farm have driven him into a disturbing friendship with the new girl in town. Piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she startedΓ’β¬βon the run from a killer.
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