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The Cold Way Home

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Julia Keller welcomes readers back to West Virginia, where her lyrical and moving stories of the people of her native state have unfolded since A Killing in the Hills, the acclaimed first novel in the series.

Deep in the woods just outside Acker's Gap, West Virginia, rises a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins — prosecutor turned private investigator — makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: A dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.

To solve the mystery of what happened in these woods where she played as a child, Bell and her partners — former sheriff Nick Fogelsong and former deputy Jake Oakes — must confront the tangled history of Wellwood and its dark legacy, while each grapples with a private torment. Based on a true chapter in the troubled history of early treatment for psychiatric illness, The Cold Way Home is a story of death and life, of despair and hope, of crime and — sometimes, but not always — punishment.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 320
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-1-250-19122-9
  • EAN
  • 9781250191229
  • Release date
  • 2019