Bell Elkins #8
Minotaur Books
August 2019
On Sale: August 20, 2019
Featuring: Bell Elkins
320 pages ISBN: 125019122X EAN: 9781250191229 Kindle: B07J4XJ79J Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller welcomes readers back to West Virginia, where her lyrical and moving stories of the people of her native state have unfolded since A Killing in the Hills, the acclaimed first novel in the series.
Deep in the woods just outside Acker's Gap, West Virginia, rises a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins β prosecutor turned private investigator β makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: A dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
To solve the mystery of what happened in these woods where she played as a child, Bell and her partners β former sheriff Nick Fogelsong and former deputy Jake Oakes β must confront the tangled history of Wellwood and its dark legacy, while each grapples with a private torment. Based on a true chapter in the troubled history of early treatment for psychiatric illness, The Cold Way Home is a story of death and life, of despair and hope, of crime and β sometimes, but not always β punishment.
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