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Howorth, Lisa.
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Women journalists -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Sexually abused boys -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
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Howorth, Lisa.
Women journalists -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Sexually abused boys -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
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Flying shoes : a novel / Lisa Howorth.
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Howorth, Lisa.
Bloomsbury, c2014.
Call #:
FICTION HOW
Subjects
Women journalists -- Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation) -- Fiction.
Sexually abused boys -- Fiction.
Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781620403013
1620403013
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
325 p. ; 25 cm
Summary:
"Mary Byrd Thornton could understand how a reporter couldn't resist the story: a nine-year-old boy sexually molested and killed on Mother's Day, 1966. A suspect to whom nothing would stick. A neighborhood riddled with secrets. No one, especially the bungling or complicit authorities, had been able to solve the crime. Now, thirty years later, the reporter's call will reel a reluctant Mary Byrd from Mississippi back to Virginia where she must confront her family--and, once again, the murder's irremovable stain of tragedy. Lisa Howorth's remarkable Flying Shoes is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of her stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post. And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined. With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, 'Flying Shoes' is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new southern voice about family and memory and one woman's flight from a wounded past."--Publisher.
Genre:
Suspense fiction.
First novel.
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1
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