Keller grew up in West Virginia, a troubled a area with high unemployment, poverty and drug abuse. But a most beautiful and scenic place of wonder!
Prosecutor Bell Elkins was one of the rare residents who escaped Acker's Gap, got a law degree, and decided to come back to make a difference in her troubled home. In Keller's fifth book, Sorrow Road, Bell starts looking into whether there is something suspicious about the deaths of a high school friend's father at an Alzheimer's nursing facility. In the meantime, Bell has a grown daughter, Carla, comes home to Acker's Gap to face her troubled past. Carla, who as a high school student witnessed the murder of her best friend before she was kidnapped and almost killed herself, is struggling with haunted memories. I enjoy reading mysteries as well as trying to solve murders, and the relationship between Bell and Carla is complex and interesting.
I look forward to reading Julia Keller's other five books in the Bell Elkins series! After reading SORROW ROAD I can tell that Julia Keller has her heart and soul in her writings of where she grew up in West Virginia! A very good read!
In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, Bel
Elkins's sister goes undercover into a West Viriginia
nursing home when Alzheimer patients start dying at
alarming rates
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 storiesβone set in the
turbulent era of World War II and one in the present dayβ
are woven together to create a piercingly poignant tale of
memory and family, of love and murder.
Belfa Elkins, prosecuting attorney in Ackerβs Gap, West
Virginia, is asked by an old acquaintance to look into the
death of her beloved father in an Alzheimerβs care
facility. Did he die of natural causesβor was something
more sinister to blame? And thatβs not the only issue with
which Bell is grappling: Her daughter Carla has moved back
home. But somethingβs 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 Ackerβs 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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