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When a scandalous small-town crime goes viral, a teen girl takes center stage in Rosecrans Baldwin's story of a twenty-first century Puritan witch-hunt
MCD
June 2017
On Sale: June 6, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 0374298564
EAN: 9780374298562
Kindle: B01MQIGC75
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction | Suspense
The Last Kid Left begins when a car smashes into a sculpture of a giant cowgirl. The police find two bodies in the trunk. 19-year-old Nick Toussaint Jr. is arrested for murder, and after details of the crime rip across the internet, his 16-year-old girlfriend, Emily Portis―a sheltered teen whoβs been off the grid until now, her first romance coinciding with her first cellphone―is nearly consumed by a public hungry for every lurid detail, accurate or not. Emily and Nick are not the only ones whose lives come unmoored. A retired police officer latches onto the case. Nickβs alcoholic mother is thrust into an unfamiliar role. A young journalist who left her hometown behind is pulled into the fray. And Emilyβs father, the town Sheriff, is finally forced to confront a monstrous secret. The Last Kid Left is a bold, searching novel about how our relationships operate in a hyper-connected world, an expertly-portrayed account of tragedy turned mercilessly into entertainment. And itβs the suspenseful unwinding of a crime thatβs more complex than it initially seems. But mostly itβs the story of two teenagers, dismantled by circumstances and rotten luck, who are desperate to believe that love is enough to save them.
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