02084cam a2200361 a 4500 777662625 OCoLC 20240722095500.0 120503s2012 nyu 000 1 eng 2012016583 9780755392872 $19.00 1250003482 (hbk.) : (OCoLC)777662625 DLC eng DLC n-us-wv PS3574.K354KEL K55 2012 813/.6 22 Keller, Julia A killing in the hills / Julia Keller 1st ed New York : Minotaur Books, 2012 371 p. ; 25 cm In this novel a mother and a daughter try to do right by a town and each other before it is too late. What is happening in Acker's Gap, West Virginia? Three elderly men are gunned down over their coffee at a local diner, and seemingly half the town is there to witness the act. Still, it happened so fast, and no one seems to have gotten a good look at the shooter. Was it random? Was it connected to the spate of drug violence plaguing poor areas of the country just like Acker's Gap? Or were Dean Streeter, Shorty McClurg, and Lee Rader targeted somehow? One of the witnesses to the brutal incident was Carla Elkins, teenaged daughter of Bell Elkins, the prosecuting attorney for Raythune County, West Virginia. Carla was shocked and horrified by what she saw, but after a few days, she begins to recover enough to believe that she might be uniquely placed to help her mother do her job. After all, what better way to repair their fragile, damaged relationship? But could Carla also end up doing more harm than good, in fact, putting her own life in danger? Older men Crimes against Fiction Murder Fiction Witnesses Fiction Teenage girls Fiction Mothers and daughters Fiction West Virginia Fiction Appalachian Region Fiction Mystery fiction. gsafd lcc BK 1ST 3574.K354 KEL PS 0 19133 19133 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC cutlib cutlib GEN 2016-05-26 donation 040169 0 PS3574K354KEL bk0047288 2024-07-22 00:00:00 C.040169 2024-07-22 BK