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Love Lies Bleeding - A Novel - cover

Love Lies Bleeding - A Novel

Jess McConkey

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks

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In the vein of Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell and TheLovely Bones by Alice Sebold  comes Love Lies Bleeding, a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried. Jess McConkey (aka award-winning author Shirley Damsgaard) enthralls with her ingenious blending of family drama and gripping mystery. Suspenseful and absolutely chilling, Love Lies Bleeding grabs hold of the reader from page one, as a young woman whose golden life is shattered by unexpected violence is sent to a small, secluded lake town in Northern Minnesota to recover—and soon suspects the town’s eccentric residents are hiding more than one truly frightening secret.
Available since: 07/26/2011.
Print length: 339 pages.

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