Overview
2024. Recently-engaged city girl Cora is new to the small town of Hickory Falls. Still adjusting to the change in pace,Ā sheās delighted when she stumbles upon a quaint estate sale. Drawn in by the knickknacks, she buys a jar of colorful baubles and is surprised to find two rings at the bottom of the jar. When she innocently sets out to find the original owner of the rings, she instead stumbles upon a decades-old mystery.
1953. Clarity Grey shouldāve known better than to get involved with a married man, but their connection went too deep to ignore. When he divorces his wife for her, they marry and she gets the family life sheās always dreamed of, with a new stepdaughter and a child of her own. But just as suddenly, her new life slips out of her hands when she simply vanishes, never to be seen or heard of again.
Clarity is labeled as flakey and a homewrecker, so nobody in town takes her disappearance seriously--until Cora, seventy years later.
Told in dual timelines, this engrossing novel exposes one familyās secrets and the twisted lies that are hidden in small towns.
This book title, Pretty Dead Things (A Mystery), ISBN: 9798892420020, by Lilian West, published by CROOKED LANE BOOKS (December 10, 2024) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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