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Light of Day

"An exhilarating emotional roller-coaster ride."

—Washington Post

"Haunting, beautifully-written, and heart-wrenching."

—Harlan Coben

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With his shattering, extraordinarily affecting debut novel, Light of Day, author Jamie M. Saul made a powerful, incontrovertible statement: a major American writer had arrived on the literary scene. The author of The First Warm Evening of the Year, Saul mesmerizes with the unforgettable story of a small-town Midwestern professor struggling to come to terms with a devastating tragedy and the strange and terrible mystery at its core.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

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