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Fast Falls the Night: A Bell Elkins Novel
Contributor(s): Keller, Julia (Author)
ISBN: 125008962X     ISBN-13: 9781250089625
Publisher: Minotaur Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.99  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
Dewey: FIC
Series: Bell Elkins
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.50 lbs) 304 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
 
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Publisher Description:

In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a murder investigation leads West Virginia prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins to the shattering truth about her own past.

Based on a real-life event, Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's latest Bell Elkins novel Fast Falls the Night takes place in a single 24-hour period, unfurling against the backdrop of a shattering personal revelation that will change Bell's life forever.

The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar.

But then there is another overdose. And another. And another.

Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin overdoses from a batch tainted with a lethal tranquilizer. While the clock ticks and the bodies fall, Bell and her colleagues desperately track the source of the deadly drug--and engage in fierce debates over the wisdom of expending precious resources to save the lives of self-destructive addicts.


Contributor Bio(s): Keller, Julia: - 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.