From the author of the acclaimed novel Reap comes a novel based on true events. The savage murder of a young girl in a remote northern town during Vermont’s gay marriage battle unleashes the town’s darkest prejudices and fears leading to the eruption of more violence, and the arrest of a boy who swears he’s innocent. So what if he is? In Rickstad’s fiction, no one is safe. Not the characters. Not the reader. Rickstad breaks from tired convention and is unconcerned about tying the mystery in a tidy bow so you can sleep at night. Compared to Denis Johnson and Russell Banks by the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Rickstad takes an unflinching look at our darkest impulses and finds humanity hidden within.
Author
Eric Rickstad is the New York Times and International bestselling author of the new acclaimed page-turner I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM. He also wrote The Canaan Crime Series—LIE IN WAIT, THE SILENT GIRLS, and THE NAMES OF DEAD GIRLS—as well as WHAT REMAINS OF HER. Each is a compulsively readable psychological thriller heralded as dark, disturbing, profound and heartbreaking. His first novel REAP was a New York Times noteworthy novel. Rickstad lives in Vermont.
