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Book

Dark August : a novel

Call Number

  • MYSTERY TALL (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Harper, [2020]

Physical Description

437 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence when she learns that her great grandmother-- her last living relative-- has died. Ditching her grifter boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. Combing through her great grandmother's possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings-- and cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. A news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files leads Gus to a deserted ghost town-- and stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger.

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