The good ones : a novel / Polly Stewart.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: 291 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780063234154; 0063234157Subject(s): Missing persons -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Small cities -- Fiction | Homecoming -- Fiction | Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction | Personnes disparues -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Amitié féminine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Secret -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Petites villes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Retour au foyer -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Crimes non résolus -- Romans, nouvelles, etc | Cold cases (Criminal investigation) | Female friendship | Homecoming | Missing persons | Secrecy | Small cities | Missing persons -- Fiction | Women detectives -- Fiction | Appalachian Region -- Fiction | Appalachian RegionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Novels. | Fiction | Novels | Thrillers (Fiction) | Thrillers (Fiction) | Novels. | Romans. DDC classification: 813/.6 LOC classification: PS3619.T515 | G66 2023Summary: Twenty years after her childhood friend Lauren disappeared, Nicola returns to her Appalachian hometown where she, driven by a desperate need to know what happened to Lauren, obsessively searches for the truth in a place where the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge community.Summary: The last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle--as well as her grieving husband and young daughter--behind. Now, nearly twenty years later, Nicola, newly unemployed and still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend, is returning to her Appalachian hometown. For Nicola, Tyndall County has remained frozen in time. Everywhere she turns she's reminded of Lauren. Yet shockingly, her former friends and neighbors have all moved on. Drawn to stories of missing girls, Nicola obsessively searches the internet, hoping to discover a clue to Lauren's ultimate fate. Driven by a desperate need to know what happened to her friend, Nicola takes a job in her hometown, determined to uncover any bit of information, any small clue, that can help. Deep down she knows the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge county. As secrets come to light and the truth begins to unravel, will Nicola finally find release and break free of the past--or lose herself completely to unanswered questions from her adolescence?
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Twenty years after her childhood friend Lauren disappeared, Nicola returns to her Appalachian hometown where she, driven by a desperate need to know what happened to Lauren, obsessively searches for the truth in a place where the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge community.
The last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle--as well as her grieving husband and young daughter--behind. Now, nearly twenty years later, Nicola, newly unemployed and still haunted by the disappearance of her childhood friend, is returning to her Appalachian hometown. For Nicola, Tyndall County has remained frozen in time. Everywhere she turns she's reminded of Lauren. Yet shockingly, her former friends and neighbors have all moved on. Drawn to stories of missing girls, Nicola obsessively searches the internet, hoping to discover a clue to Lauren's ultimate fate. Driven by a desperate need to know what happened to her friend, Nicola takes a job in her hometown, determined to uncover any bit of information, any small clue, that can help. Deep down she knows the answers are tucked in the hollows and valleys of this small Blue Ridge county. As secrets come to light and the truth begins to unravel, will Nicola finally find release and break free of the past--or lose herself completely to unanswered questions from her adolescence?
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