Informationen zum Autor Before becoming a novelist, Cara Hoffman worked as an investigative reporter covering New York State's rural and Rust Belt communities, where she reported on crime. This is her first novel. Klappentext A psychological suspense debut! dealing with the disappearance and murder of a 19 year old waitress in small town New York. It's told from several different points of view! including a local reporter! and fellow teenager! Alice. 'Poetic! intelligent and shocking' Rosamund Lupton Zusammenfassung 'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.' When nineteen-year-old Wendy White disappears, the small town of Haeden, New York, is shaken to its core. The police are unable to trace the missing waitress; everyone assumes that she has run away. But, six months later, Wendy's tortured body is found in the nearby woods. She has only been dead for a matter of days. With no one willing to talk, the investigation slows to a halt. But local reporter Stacy Flynn and high school student Alice Piper have their own reasons for finding out what really happened. The truth behind Wendy's disappearance has a devastating effect on the town: what was once a rural idyll is now the backdrop to murder, violence and revenge.

Vorwort
Murder, revenge and violence strike a small American town in this startling debut novel.

Autorentext
Before becoming a novelist, Cara Hoffman worked as an investigative reporter covering New York State's rural and Rust Belt communities, where she reported on crime. This is her first novel.

Klappentext

When nineteen-year-old local waitress, Wendy White, disappears, the small town of Haeden, New York, is shaken to its core. Nothing like this has ever happened in this rural idyll and the police make little headway with the case, assuming that Wendy most likely ran away. But, six months later, Wendy's tortured body is found in the nearby woods.

Zusammenfassung
'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.'When nineteen-year-old Wendy White disappears, the small town of Haeden, New York, is shaken to its core.