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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 รขโฌลThe Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.รขโฌย As her family lay dying, little Libby fled their tiny farmhouse into the freezing January snow. She lost some fingers and toes, but she survivedรขโฌโand 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 whoรขโฌโขve long forgotten her. The Kill Club is a macabre secret society obsessed with notorious crimes. When they locate Libby and pump her for detailsรขโฌโproof they hope may free BenรขโฌโLibby hatches a plan to profit off her tragic history. For a fee, sheรขโฌโขll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club . . . and maybe sheรขโฌโขll admit her testimony wasnรขโฌโขt so solid after all. As Libbyรขโฌโขs 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 Libbyรขโฌโขs doomed family membersรขโฌโincluding 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 startedรขโฌโon the run from a killer.
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