Keller Julia - A Killing In The Hills A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: In A Killing in the Hills a powerful intricate debut from Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Julia Keller a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it's too late. What's happening in Acker's Gap West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still it happened so fast and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter Shorty Mc Clurg and Lee Rader targeted somehow? One of the witnesses to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County WV. Carla was shocked and horrified by what she saw but after a few days she begins to recover enough to believe that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job. After all what better way to repair their fragile damaged relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good in fact putting her own life in danger?
Title: A Killing In The Hills A Novel
Author(s): Keller Julia
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250028754
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/11/2013
Series: Bell Elkins Novels
Category: Crime & Mystery