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Title: Long & Faraway Gone, The: A Novel
Author: BERNEY LOU
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/03/2015
Imprint: HARPER COLLINS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
From Edgar Award-nominated author Lou Berney, THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE, a sharp, evocative crime novel of two unsolved cold cases and the survivors left behind, forced together 25 years later to confront a dark past and finally discover the truth, no matter the cost. Wyatt’s philosophy when it came to the past: stay out of it. By doing so he had lived a happy life. A life undrowned, unbroken on the rocks, unswept toward an empty horizon. In the summer of 1986, two separate incidents made headlines in Oklahoma City: An armed robbery ended with the murder of six movie-theater employees, leaving just one survivor. Around the same time, a teenage girl vanished without a trace from the annual State Fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five years later, Wyatt is working as a private investigator in Vegas. Hired for what seems a routine investigation on behalf of a feisty single mother, Wyatt realizes too late that it will force him to return to his hometown, and to a past he’s tried his whole life to escape – a past in which he was the lone survivor to the movie-theater murders. The case is not as simple as it seems, and as the investigation becomes more complicated and dangerous, Wyatt is drawn deeper into the harrowing mystery that has defined his life. Also in Oklahoma City, Julianna has lived a life consumed by her obsession with the day her beautiful older sister Genevieve disappeared from the State Fair. When Julianna discovers that an ex-con carnie who was one of the original suspects has re-emerged after years off the grid, she resolves to get answers, even if she has to do it all herself. Both drawn inexorably back to the tragedies they experienced as teenagers, Wyatt and Julianna cross paths – with their shared memories and damaged past, there’s electricity between them, but can they help each other by sharing their obsessive quest? As dirty laundry from a quarter-century earlier is aired, can they ever discover what really happened during that faraway summer? And if so, can the truth set them free – or destroy them? In the vein of Laura Lippman and Dennis Lehane, incorporating humor and strongly-drawn characters with darkness and emotional depth, THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE is a smart, compelling, fiercely compassionate crime story exploring the mysteries of memory and the impact of crime on its survivors – and the lengths they will go to find the truth.
ISBN: 9780062292438
Dimension: 203mm X 135mm