Bell Elkins #4
Minotaur Books
September 2015
On Sale: August 25, 2015
Featuring: Royce Dillard; Bell Elkins
384 pages ISBN: 125004474X EAN: 9781250044747 Kindle: B00T331NEC Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history.
Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three other souls-died in the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster. He was only two years old when he was ripped from his mother's arms. But now Dillard, who lives off the grid with only a passel of dogs for company, is fighting for his life one more time: He's on trial for murder.
Prosecutor Bell Elkins faces her toughest challenge yet in this haunting story of vengeance, greed and the fierce struggle for social justice. Richly imagined, vividly written and deeply felt, LAST RAGGED BREATH is set in West Virginia, but it really takes place in a land we all know: the country called home.
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