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A guide for murdered children : a novel / Sarah Sparrow.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399574528 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 385 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Blue Rider Press, 2018.
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| Subject: | Murder victims > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) Psychological fiction. |
- Baker & Taylor
After finding a job running a cold case squad in suburban Detroit, ex-NYPD detective Willow Wylde discovers a series of church basement meetings where the souls of murdered children, inhabiting the bodies of adults, congregate and plot their revenge. - Penguin Putnam
"In her astonishing thriller, Sarah Sparrow has joined the ranks of Shirley Jackson and Stephen King. A warning: there is no safe place to read this book."
âDavid Cronenberg
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Terrifying, thoroughly original and hauntingly written, A Guide for Murdered Children is a psychological thrillerâand otherworldly surprise.
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Weâve heard it said that there is no justice in this world. But what if there really was? What if the souls of murdered children were able to briefly return, inhabit adult bodies and wreak revenge on the monstrous killers who stole their lives?
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Such is the unthinkable mystery confronting ex-NYPD detective Willow Wylde, fresh out of rehab and finally able to find a job running a Cold Case squad in suburban Detroit. When the two rookie cops assigned to him take an obsessive interest in a decades-old disappearance of a brother and sister, Willow begins to suspect something out of the ordinary is afoot. And when he uncovers a series of church basement AA-type meetings made up of the slain innocents, a new way of looking at life, death, murderâand missed opportunitiesâis revealed to him.
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Mystical, harrowing and powerfully moving, A Guide for Murdered Children is a genre-busting, mind-bending twist on the fine line between the ordinary… and the unfathomable.
