Kansas Frayne has everything he needs. Except a life and love. A freak storm changes all that when it hurls him into the darkness. He wakes up to find he's been thrust into a world of promiscuous and directionally challenged beings, sensually sentient water and servants created solely to fulfill any
No Saints in Kansas
โ Scribed by Amy Brashear
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A young adult, fictional reimagining of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the brutal murders that inspired it. Gripping and fast-paced, this meticulously researched historical fiction will reinvigorate a new generation to Capote.
November is usually quiet in Holcomb, Kansas, but in 1959, the town is shattered by the quadruple murder of the Clutter family. Suspicion falls on Nancy Clutter's boyfriend, Bobby Rupp, the last one to see them alive.
New Yorker Carly Fleming, new to the small Midwestern town, is an outsider. She tutored Nancy, and (in private, at least) they were close. Carly and Bobby were the only ones who saw that Nancy was always performing, and that she was cracking under the pressure of being Holcomb's golden girl. This secret connected Carly and Bobby. Now that Bobby is an outsider, too, they're bound closer than ever.
Determined to clear Bobby's name, Carly dives into the murder investigation and ends up in trouble with the local...
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