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IN SEARCH OF THE ROSE NOTES By: Emily Arsenault
William Morrow
July 2011
On Sale: July 26, 2011
Featuring: Charlotte; Nora
384 pages ISBN: 0062012320 EAN: 9780062012326 Paperback
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Mystery | Suspense
At age eleven, Nora and Charlotte are the best of friendsβuntil their teenager babysitter, Rose, disappears under mysterious circumstances. They decide to βinvestigate,β using paranormal theories and techniques they glean from a hand-me-down collection of Time-Life books. But their search goes nowhere, and leaves both girls distraught and angry with each other. In her late twenties, Nora is drawn back her old neighborhood, and to Charlotte, when Roseβs bones are found. She was probably murdered, and Charlotte is adamant that they solve the crime. Noraβwho was the last known person to see Rose aliveβis forced to reconsider her memory of the events surrounding the disappearance, and her own troubled adolescence following those fateful days. And sheβs not sure if sheβs ready to face the secrets that begin to surface. Told in alternating narratives from the past and present, this is a mystery about broken friendship and the unease of revisiting adolescent memory.
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