Description
When seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again.
Abi’s disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi’s family, there are questions to be asked – of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father – both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him.
Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark – the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones….
About the author: Tall Bones is a literary crime thriller and my debut novel, inspired by the years I spent living in small-town America, particularly in the Colorado Rocky Mountains where this book is set. I also drew a lot of influence from TV shows such as Twin Peaks and True Detective, a childhood’s worth of creepy films, and the brooding Americana music of Johnny Cash and Colter Wall. I am extremely fortunate that the good folks at Goldsboro Books also enjoyed these things and have selected Tall Bones as their Book of the Month for April. Raised in Gloucestershire, I’m a West Country girl at heart, but I now live in France, where I’m currently working on my second novel, and I still can’t believe that’s a sentence I actually get to say.
