First published 2014
Snow blankets Crozet, Virginia as Harry and her husband Fair prepare for the holidays. They distribute food to neighbors in need and shop for the Silver Linings youth organization's annual gala. But the winter calm shatters when two Silver Linings mentors turn up dead under suspicious circumstances. Then someone discovers a pair of severed human fingers in a pencil jar at St. Cyril's church bookkeeper's office. The grisly find connects to the mysterious vanishing of Harry's attractive Latin teacher from high school twenty-five years earlier. Harry and her animal companions make another disturbing discovery in the woods behind her farm. The evidence points to serious crimes buried in Crozet's past. Someone has worked hard to hide the truth for decades. Harry must untangle a love triangle from her youth and solve a cold case that refuses to stay buried.
Genres: suspense, mystery, crime, thriller
Vibes: atmospheric, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Crozet, Virginia, St. Cyril's
Period: Holidays, 25 Years Ago
253 pages · Hardcover · Bantam