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Rural Montana’s frozen tundra is the setting for this literary mystery debut. Eighteen-year-old Grace is home alone after recuperating from a heart transplant when she sees a man stab a woman on the fringes of the property behind her home, then take off.
Despite the cold, she runs out the back door to try and help. She is shocked to find the victim is the mother who abandoned her eleven years earlier, but she is too late to help. Detective Macy Greeley is assigned the case as she’s been tracking the victim in connection with a sex slavery ring. But Collier, Montana is a small town full of evil secrets and no one is talking, least of all Grace.
Greeley becomes convinced that Grace knows a lot more than she’s telling, but she has to ferret out the information herself while dealing with a pregnancy that’s the result of a liaison with her married boss. The icy winter itself becomes almost another character in this dark, brooding whodunit filled with sharp twists and idiosyncratic characters. This debut should appeal to fans of C.J. Box and Nevada Barr.
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BONE DUST WHITE by Karin Salvalaggio. Minotaur Books (May 13, 2014). ISBN 978-1250046185. 304p.
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