Book Overview
What's happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow? One of the witnesses to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, WV. Carla was shocked and horrified by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job. After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good--in fact, putting her own life in danger? In A Killing in the Hills , a powerful, intricate debut from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Keller, a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it's too late.
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1250130263
ISBN13:9781250130266
Release Date:May 2017
Publisher:Minotaur Books
Length:400 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"
Customer Reviews
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Want to know what it's like today living in an Appalachian town ?
Published by Beth Ann , 5 years ago
Julia Keller makes it real....you can almost smell the air and feel the grit. She has the gift of being able to place you square in the middle of the place, the situations, moving among the people and feeling what they feel. And the mystery of her books is that the true mystery is never revealed until the very end ! What a great summer find. I ordered ALL of her books and am sharing them with friends from California to Michigan to Ohio.
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