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Cold Springs

by Rick Riordan · 2003

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The death of a child ripples effects on all around her - whether accident, suicide, or murder. Katherine Chadwick 16 overdoses on heroin while babysitting little Mallory, daughter of her parents' best friends. Forward nine years to two ruined marriages. For a reform school in Cold Springs Texas, Kat's dad must capture Mallory, now 15 and in trouble.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thisthrillerthrillerMore like thisLess of thiscrimecrimeMore like thisLess of this
Setting
2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisTexasTexasMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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