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Crown Publishers
September 2011
On Sale: September 13, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0307451860
EAN: 9780307451866
Kindle: B004KPM126
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Mystery
It is early summer and Nellie Peck is on the cusp of
adolescence - gangly, awkward, full of questions, but keenly
observant and wiser than many of the adults in her life. The
person she most admires is her father, Benjamin, a man of
great integrity. His family's century old hardware store is
failing and Nellie's mother has had to go back to work.
Nellie's older half-sister has launched a disturbing search
for her birth father. Often saddled through the long, hot
days with her timid younger brother, Henry, Nellie is
determined to toughen him up. And herself as well. Three strangers enter Nellie's protected life. Brooding Max
Devaney is an ex-con who works in her surly grandfather's
junkyard. Reckless Bucky Saltonstall has just arrived from
New York City to live with his elderly grandparents. And
pretty Dolly Bedelia is a young stripper who rents the
family's small, rear apartment and becomes the titillating
focus of Nellie's eavesdropping. When violence erupts in the lovely Peck house, the prime
suspect seems obvious. Nellie knows who the real murderer
is, but is soon silenced by fear and the threat of scandal.
The truth, as she sees it, is shocking and unthinkable, and
with everyone's eyes riveted on her in the courtroom, Nellie
finds herself seized with doubt.
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