Dodging and Burning

✍ Scribed by Copenhaver, John

• Book ID: 109649442
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781681776590

✦ Synopsis

In a small Virginia town still reeling from World War II, a photograph of a beautiful murdered woman propels three young people into the middle of a wide-ranging mystery.

A lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep with no return address--and it's not the first time she's seen it. The reemergence of the photo, taken fifty-five years earlier, sets her on a journey to reconstruct the vicious summer that changed her life.

In the summer of 1945, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy, mourning the loss of her brother, Robbie, who was declared missing in the Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his favorite pulp detective story "A Date with Death" and spending time with his best friend, Jay Greenwood, in Royal Oak, VA. One unforgettable August day, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of woods where he found a dead woman, but when they arrive, the body is gone. They soon...