Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller welcomes readers back to West Virginia, where her lyrical and moving stories of the people of her native state have unfolded since A Killing in the Hills, the acclaimed first novel in the series.
Deep in the woods just outside Acker's Gap, West Virginia, rises a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins – prosecutor turned private investigator – makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: A dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
To solve the mystery of what happened in these woods where she played as a child, Bell and her partners – former sheriff Nick Fogelsong and former deputy Jake Oakes – must confront the tangled history of Wellwood and its dark legacy, while each grapples with a private torment. Based on a true chapter in the troubled history of early treatment for psychiatric illness, The Cold Way Home is a story of death and life, of despair and hope, of crime and – sometimes, but not always – punishment.
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Julia Keller, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and former cultural critic at the Chicago Tribune, is the author of many books for adults and young readers, including A Killing in the Hills, the first book in the Bell Elkins series and winner of the Barry Award for Best First Novel (2013); Back Home; and The Dark Intercept. Keller has a Ph.D. in English literature from Ohio State and was awarded Harvard University’s Nieman Fellowship. She was born in West Virginia and lives in Ohio.
My Thoughts...
My first book by Keller. It is part of a series I am told but it reads as a stand alone. Not for the fact that it takes place in West Virginia or that the author is from Ohio. This book took me on a ride and I loved every minute of it. I can't wait to get my hands on more of her books.
4 stars and I recommend it.
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Good post.
ReplyDeleteSo I went in search of this book and there are like 18 before this one. Being from WV I want to read them all so I am going to start ordering a few each week.
ReplyDeleteI will read this as a stand alone and see if I like it. I have never heard of this author before today.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good book.
ReplyDeleteYou had me at Ohio and that this book took you for a ride. It is on my list to look for at Barnes and Noble.
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