The Boy Who Shoots Crows

Authors: Silvis, Randall
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022030, FIC025000, FIC031080
ISBN: 9781101552797, Related ISBNs: 042524346X, 1101552794, 9780425243466, 9781101552797
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 368,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: A riveting new psychological thriller from a "a masterful storyteller" (New York Times Book Review).

Yesterday, a local boy went missing in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Transplanted painter Charlotte Dunleavy was used to seeing him go into the woods, rifle in hand, to shoot at crows. Suffering from the debilitating aftereffects of a migraine, Charlotte is shrouded in a fog of pain and barely remembers the details of the day, just splinters of memory, as if they were a dream-but nothing concrete enough to help the local sheriff in his search.

Outside of Charlotte's windows, the woods are peaceful, the play of light and dark among the leaves offering her inspiration for her art. But the truth can penetrate even the deepest shadows of a forest-and a killer's mind...

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