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Bent Road by Lori Roy

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Also by Lori Roy:

The Final Episode, July 2025
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Lake County, June 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Gone Too Long, July 2019
Hardcover
The Disappearing, June 2019
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
The Disappearing, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Let Me Die in His Footsteps, June 2016
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
Let Me Die In His Footsteps, June 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Until She Comes Home, June 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Bent Road, March 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Bent Road, April 2011
Hardcover

Bent Road
Lori Roy

One family's struggle with the past never laid to rest.

Dutton
April 2011
On Sale: March 31, 2011
Featuring: Arthur Scott; Celia Scott
368 pages
ISBN: 0525951830
EAN: 9780525951834
Hardcover
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For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and that same small town where Eve mysteriously died.

While Arthur and their oldest daughter slip easily into rural life, Celia and the two younger children struggle to fit in. Daniel, the only son, is counting on Kansas to make a man of him since Detroit damn sure didn't. Eve-ee, the youngest and small for her age, hopes that in Kansas she will finally grow. Celia grapples with loneliness and the brutality of life and death on a farm.

And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve...

On Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; a mother realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is a place where people learn: Sometimes killing is the kindest way.

Awards

Mystery Writers of America, Best First Novel, April 2012

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