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Breakheart Hill

From the author hailed as "an important talent, a storytelling writer of poetic narrative power" ( "Los Angeles Times Book Review" ) comes a dazzling novel of psychological suspense. "This is the darkest story I've ever heard." With these haunting words, Thomas H. Cook begins a tale of love and its aftermath, of a town sent reeling from a moment of passionate betrayal. At its center was Kelli Troy and the town of Choctaw, Alabama. And on one hazy summer afternoon decades ago, a searing burst of violence engulfed Breakheart Hill. For one man who knows the truth about those shattering events, it is a memory that would become his awful secret.

Setting
1990sAlabama
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 320 pages

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