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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is 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...
2) Bitter River
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 400 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Phone calls before dawn from the sheriff are rarely good news. When Bell Elkins picks up the phone she already knows she won't like what she's about to hear, but she's still not prepared for this: Lucinda Trimble's body has been found at the bottom of Bitter River-- and she was dead before her body ever hit the water. Searching for the truth, both behind Lucinda's murder and behind her own complicated relationships, will lead Bell down a path that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
Physical Desc
v, 376 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the night-black depths of a coalmine to the sun-struck peaks of the Appalachian Mountains, from a riveting murder mystery to a poignant meditation on the meaning of love and family, the latest novel in the critically acclaimed series strikes out for new territory: the sorrow and outrage that spring from a real-life chapter in West Virginia history. Royce Dillard doesn't remember much about the day his parents-and one hundred and twenty-three...
5) Sorrow road
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly, and some of them--like Harmon Strayer, father of prosecutor Bell Elkins's former law school classmate--suffer from Alzheimer's. When Harmon dies in an Alzheimer's care facility from what appear to be natural causes, Bell confronts a mystery that brims with questions about memory, grief and the lethal cost of burying...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar. But then there is another overdose. And another. And another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin...
7) Bone on bone
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated and deadly case--even as she comes to terms with one last, devastating secret of her own. A prominent local family has fallen victim to the same sickness that infects the whole region: drug addiction. With mother against father, child against parent, and tensions that lead inexorably to tragedy, they are trapped in...
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