04109cam a2200709 i 4500 23540526 MeVbMML 20240720131429.0 240129s2023 nyu e 000 f eng d 2023286787 9780063234154 (hc.) 0063234157 (hc.) (OCoLC)on1380356387 NjBwBT eng rda CO2 OCLCQ RNL BDX YDX TXSCH UAP VP@ JRJ OCLCF OCLCO DLC lccopycat n-usa-- PS3619.T515 G66 2023 813/.6 23/eng/20230522 Stewart, Polly, author. 17737 The good ones : a novel / Polly Stewart. First edition. New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] 291 pages ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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? Missing persons Fiction. 5894 Female friendship Fiction. 59 Secrecy Fiction. 5925 Small cities Fiction. 5977 Homecoming Fiction. 5974 Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction. 6481 Personnes disparues Romans, nouvelles, etc. 12936 Amitié féminine Romans, nouvelles, etc. 11160 Secret Romans, nouvelles, etc. 12938 Petites villes Romans, nouvelles, etc. 15742 Retour au foyer Romans, nouvelles, etc. 15743 Crimes non résolus Romans, nouvelles, etc. 11519 Cold cases (Criminal investigation) fast Female friendship fast Homecoming fast 17738 Missing persons fast Secrecy fast Small cities fast Missing persons Fiction. sears 5894 Women detectives Fiction. sears 6609 Appalachian Region Fiction. 13536 Appalachian Region fast 17739 Thrillers (Fiction) 486 Novels. 50 Fiction fast 48 Novels fast 50 Thrillers (Fiction) fast 486 Thrillers (Fiction) lcgft 486 Novels. lcgft 50 Romans. rvmgf 10426 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOK 29869 29869 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-07-20 0 STEW 290045 2024-07-20 2024-07-20 BOOK 1