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The winner of the prestigious Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction, Alice Blanchard crafts a haunting literary thriller. Her chilling tale draws you deep into the heart of darkness of a picture-perfect small town in Maine. Somewhere, among the upstanding citizens of this historic community surrounded by thick woods hides a clever psychopath. As she talks to a former cop who had worked with her father, police detective Rachel Storrow is drawn into the case that drove her daddy to suicide 17 years before. The murder of a teenaged girl with Downs syndrome was never solved, although Rachel's brother Billy was implicated. Shortly after she reopens the case, another young woman whom Billy knows disappears, and Rachel is desperate to know the truth. Alice Blanchard creates characters and settings so real you will feel you grew up in Flowering Dogwood. Narrator Alyssa Bresnahan's soft, evocative voice heightens the intensity of Rachel's dangerous quest. Bresnahan's dramatic talents will keep you peering around every dark corner