{"product_id":"summer-of-the-dead-9781250044754","title":"Summer of the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt's high summer in Acker's Gap, a small town nestled in the beautiful but poverty-stricken West Virginia mountains--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the town and its hard-luck inhabitants. County prosecutor Bell Elkins and her closest friend, Sheriff Nick Fogelsong, are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley--who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the third mystery chronicling the journey of Bell Elkins and her return to her Appalachian hometown, we also meet Lindy Crabtree--a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets of her own, secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence. Acker's Gap is a place of loveliness and brutality, of isolation and fierce attachments--a place where the dead rub shoulders with the living, and demand their due. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulia Keller once again captivates readers with this story of a dying West Virginia mountain town and the strong, proud people who inhabit it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJULIA KELLER spent twelve years as a reporter and editor for the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she was born in West Viriginia and lives in Chicago and Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Minotaur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50514955993362,"sku":"9781250044754","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_29cb6c89-5134-4091-bb3e-2cea60f5681c.jpg?v=1730996207","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/summer-of-the-dead-9781250044754","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}