Summer of the Dead

✍ Scribed by Keller, Julia

• Book ID: 109095422
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 208 KB
• Series: Bell Elkins 3
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250044730

✦ Synopsis

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.
In Summer of the Dead, the third Julia Keller mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree�a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence.
Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments�a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due.