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So Much Pretty

Cara Hoffman

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English
Windmill Books
01 October 2012
Murder, revenge and violence strike a small American town in this startling debut novel.

'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.'

When nineteen-year-old Wendy White disappears, the small town of Haeden, New York, is shaken to its core. The police are unable to trace the missing waitress; everyone assumes that she has run away. But, six months later, Wendy's tortured body is found in the nearby woods. She has only been dead for a matter of days.

With no one willing to talk, the investigation slows to a halt. But local reporter Stacy Flynn and high school student Alice Piper have their own reasons for finding out what really happened.

The truth behind Wendy's disappearance has a devastating effect on the town- what was once a rural idyll is now the backdrop to murder, violence and revenge.
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Imprint:   Windmill Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   218g
ISBN:   9780099558484
ISBN 10:   0099558483
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Before becoming a novelist, Cara Hoffman worked as an investigative reporter covering New York State's rural and Rust Belt communities, where she reported on crime. This is her first novel.

Reviews for So Much Pretty

Dark, atmospheric tale of murder in a small-town world. * Stylist * Intelligent and gripping stuff * Financial Times * Beautiful ... what begins as the suspenseful story of a rural American murder grows into a dark, disquieting and urgently fascinating examination of the violence and concealment practised by a whole society ... this is an impassioned, intelligent and important work of art. -- Chris Cleave A passionately angry ... and shocking book. Cara Hoffman not only discovers the heart of darkness in small town Haeden, but brilliantly dissects it. -- Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Sister A mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo * Booklist *


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