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Bone on Bone: A Bell Elkins Novel
Contributor(s): Keller, Julia (Author)
ISBN: 1250190932     ISBN-13: 9781250190932
Publisher: Minotaur Books
OUR PRICE:   $19.79  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
- Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Traditional
- Fiction | Small Town & Rural
Dewey: 813.6
Series: Bell Elkins
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.3" W x 8.2" (0.65 lbs) 336 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

Bone on Bone, the next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series, sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines -- but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip.

How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated and deadly case -- even as she comes to terms with one last, devastating secret of her own.

A prominent local family has fallen victim to the same sickness that infects the whole region: drug addiction. With mother against father, child against parent, and tensions that lead inexorably to tragedy, they are trapped in a grim, hopeless struggle with nowhere to turn.

Bell has lost her job as prosecutor -- but not her affection for her ragtag, hard-luck hometown. Teamed up with former Deputy Jake Oakes, who battles his own demons as he adjusts to life as a paraplegic, and aided by the new prosecutor, Rhonda Lovejoy, Bell tackles a case as poignant as it is perilous, as heartbreaking as it is challenging.


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.