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!