Bell Elkins #5
Minotaur Books
September 2016
On Sale: August 23, 2016
356 pages ISBN: 1250089581 EAN: 9781250089588 Kindle: B01BBXYA1Y Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In 1944, three young men from a small town in West Virginia are among the American forces participating in D-Day, changing the fortunes of the war with one bold stroke. How is that moment aboard a Navy ship as it barrels toward the Normandy shore related to the death of an old man in an Appalachian nursing home seventy-two years later?
In Sorrow Road, the latest mystery from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Julia Keller, two storiesโone set in the turbulent era of World War II and one in the present dayโare woven together to create a piercingly poignant tale of memory and family, of love and murder.
Bell Elkins, prosecuting attorney in Ackerโs Gap, West Virginia, is asked by an old acquaintance to look into the death of her beloved father in an Alzheimerโs care facility. Did he die of natural causesโor was something more sinister to blame? And thatโs not the only issue with which Bell is grappling: Her daughter Carla has moved back home. But somethingโs not right. Carla is desperately hiding a secret.
Once again, past and present, good and evil, and revenge and forgiveness clash in a riveting story set in the shattered landscape of Ackerโs Gap, where the skies can seem dark even at high noon, and the mountains lean close to hear the whispered lament of the people trapped in their shadow.
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