**A veteran on leave investigates a murder in his Kentucky backwoods hometown in this Appalachian noir by the acclaimed author of _Country Dark_.** Mick Hardin, a combat veteran and Army CID agent, is home on a leave to be with his pregnant wife--but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly ri
A killing in the hills
β Scribed by Julia Keller
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group; Minotaur Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Series
- Bell Elkins 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- West Virginia,West Virginia.
- ISBN
- 1250018064
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β¦ Synopsis
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.
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...
β¦ Subjects
West Virginia
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