Bell Elkins returns in this electrifying thriller from Pulitzer-prize winner Julia Keller. For fans of Dennis Lehane and Linwood Barclay. When tragedy hits Acker's Gap, no one escapes its effects. In Acker's Gap, West Virginia, a high-school student - sixteen, full of promise, and pregnant - is foun[...]

High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountai[...]

The first death came unexpectedly. An old man attacked outside his home, his murder a shock to the town. Then the second death came and, with it, fear. For Raythune County's prosecuting attorney Bell Elkins, the inexplicable killings in Acker's Gap are all she can think about. Everything - the oppre[...]

Das Thema von Romeo und Julia, das bis ins 15. Jahrhundert zurückgeht und durch Shakespeare seine bedeutendste Gestaltung fand (Hamburger Leseheft Nr. 128), verlegt Keller ins dörfliche Milieu. Wiederholt wurde die Liebesgeschichte als die "schönste deutsche Dorfgeschichte" bezeichnet. Die feindl[...]