Isabella Moon
Isabella Moon Isabella Moon is a book of secrets and dark miracles Laura Benedict writes with tender power and understanding, filling the pages with characters whose mysteries and longings will matter to every read
Isabella Moon is a book of secrets and dark miracles Laura Benedict writes with tender power and understanding, filling the pages with characters whose mysteries and longings will matter to every reader Luanne Rice, author of The Edge of Winter Sometimes the past comes looking for you Two years ago, in idyllic Carystown, Kentucky, nine year old Isabella Moon disa Isabella Moon is a book of secrets and dark miracles Laura Benedict writes with tender power and understanding, filling the pages with characters whose mysteries and longings will matter to every reader Luanne Rice, author of The Edge of Winter Sometimes the past comes looking for you Two years ago, in idyllic Carystown, Kentucky, nine year old Isabella Moon disappeared on her way home from school Is it just coincidence that Kate Russell, a young woman with no discernible past, arrived in town just months before Isabella s disappearance When Kate walks into Sheriff Bill Delaney s office to tell him that Isabella s ghost has led her to the child s hidden grave, he immediately views her as a suspect Mystery follows mystery as a local athlete drops dead, inexplicably, on the basketball court, and someone close to Kate is viciously murdered.Quiet Carystown was to be Kate s salvation, and she s settled into a comfortable job, a charming cottage, and a blissful romance But having lied to her boyfriend, Caleb, for so long about the terrors of her past life, she finds she can t trust him to understand the terror that Isabella Moon has now brought And Kate s best friend, Francie, is too wrapped up in her own troubles particularly a secret affair with a man she at once loves and despises to give Kate the help she needs Utterly alone, Kate is torn between finding justice for the dead child and keeping away old ghosts of her own.The unsolved disappearance of Isabella Moon has been the biggest disappointment of Sheriff Delaney s career But he senses that Kate is trouble As he investigates her impossible claims, he also uncovers a series of unsettling truths about Carystown itself Behind his hometown s genteel fa ade is a morass of lies and murder, drugs and destruction And Carystown s residents are about to discover that even though the past is buried, it can rise again with a vengeance.Dark and suspenseful, tense and eerie, tinged with the supernatural, Isabella Moon is an engrossing, beautifully written debut novel, a breathtaking and artful story of the dark mysteries that can lurk in the most bucolic of places and the ghost of a little girl who watches as evil rises unstoppably to the surface.
Isabella Moon by Laura Benedict
Laura Benedict
About Author
Laura Benedict is the Edgar and ITW Thriller Award nominated author of seven novels of suspense, including the forthcoming The Stranger Inside February 2019 Small Town Trouble, her latest book, is a cozy crime novel Her Bliss House gothic trilogy includes The Abandoned Heart, Charlotte s Story Booklist starred review , and Bliss House Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine, and in numerous anthologies like Thrillers 100 Must Reads, The Lineup 20 Provocative Women Writers, and St Louis Noir A native of Cincinnati, she lives in Southern Illinois with her family Visit her at laurabenedict.
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