Reluctantly returning to her hometown after an eight-year absence to
investigate the murders of two preteen girls, reporter Camille Preaker is
reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic, thirteen-year-old half-
sister as she works to uncover the truth about the killings, a probe that
leads her all too close to the secrets of her own past. A first novel.
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