Stephanie Gayle
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English
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Stephanie Gayle, a Pushcart Prize-nominated short story writer, sets her first novel in the sticky, hot South. Public defender Natalie Goldberg is spending the summer in Georgia, escaping a romance gone bad and prosecuting a capital murder case, despite her anti-death penalty beliefs. It's going to be a long summer for this New Yorker.
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283 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In the summer of 1997, Thomas Lynch arrives as the new chief of police in Idyll, Connecticut -- a town where serious crimes can be counted on one hand. So no one is prepared when Cecilia North is found murdered on a golf course. By chance, Chief Lynch met her mere hours before she was killed. With that lead, the case should be a slam dunk. But there's a problem. If Lynch tells his detectives about meeting the victim, he'll reveal his greatest secret:...