A top ten bestseller. With the haunting emotional power of and the atmospheric suspense of : a compulsive debut novel that explores the aftershock of a brutal crime on the women of a small Texas oil town.New York TimesAmerican DirtWhere the Crawdads Sing
âThe very definition of a stunning debutâ Ann Patchett
âBrilliant, sharp, tightly wound, and devastatingâ Elizabeth GilbertâQuite simply one of the best books Iâve ever readâ Jeanine Cummins,author ofAmerican Dirt
Mercy is hard in a place like this. I wished him dead before I ever saw his faceâŠ
In a place like Odessa, Texas choosing who to trust can be a dangerous game.
Mary Rose Whitehead isnât looking for trouble â but when it shows up at her front door, she finds she canât turn away.
Corinne Shepherd, newly widowed, wants nothing more than to mind her own business, and for everyone else to mind theirs. But when the town she has spent years rebelling against closes ranks she realises she is going to have to take a side.
Gloria RamĂrez, fourteen years old and out of her depth, survives the brutality of one man only to face the indifference and prejudices of many.
When justice is as slippery as oil, and kindness becomes a hazardous act, sometimes courage is all we have to keep us alive.
Pocket
2023-08-05
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