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Title::
The backwater : a novel
First Author value, for Searching:
Wakefield, Vikki, author.
Format:
Book
Abstract:
"The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote trailer park community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently let go from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann has long suspected Sabine made her way back to the river-now, twelve years after the "Trailer Park Murders," she has the time and the tenacity to corner a fugitive and land the story of the year. Rachel's ambition lights the fuse leading to a brutal chain of events, and the web Sabine weaves will force Rachel to question everything she believes"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject:
Mass murder -- Fiction.
Fugitives from justice -- Fiction.
Journalists -- Fiction.
Social stratification -- Fiction.
Justice -- Fiction.
Meurtre multiple -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Fugitifs recherchés par la justice -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Stratification sociale -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Justice -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Psychological fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Romans.
Summary:
"The Kelly family has always been trouble. When a fire in a remote trailer park community kills nine people, including 17-year-old Sabine Kelly's mother and sister, Sabine confesses to the murders. Shortly after, she escapes custody and disappears. Recently let go from marriage, motherhood and her career, journalist Rachel Weidermann has long suspected Sabine made her way back to the river-now, twelve years after the "Trailer Park Murders," she has the time and the tenacity to corner a fugitive and land the story of the year. Rachel's ambition lights the fuse leading to a brutal chain of events, and the web Sabine weaves will force Rachel to question everything she believes"--
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