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1) Bone on bone
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Bone on Bone, the next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller's beloved Bell Elkins series, sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today's headlines — but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip.
How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence, Bell Elkins is back in Acker's Gap. And she finds herself in the
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Decades after the Buffalo Creek Flook of 1972, Royce Dillard, a recluse whose parents perished in the flood, becomes a suspect when a dog sniffs out the corpse of Ed Hackel, a slick marketer, in a creek outside Acker?s Gap. Hackel had been pressuring Dillard to sell his land so that it could be developed as part of the new Mountain Magic resort planned for the region. As prosecuting attorney, Bell is tasked with proving Dillard?s guilt. When it becomes...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Keller takes readers back to West Virginia and a ragged chunk of what was once a high stone wall. This is all that remains of Wellwood, a psychiatric hospital for the poor that burned to the ground decades ago. And it is here that Bell Elkins -- prosecutor turned private investigator -- makes a grim discovery while searching for a missing teenager: a dead body, marred by a ghastly wound that can only mean murder.
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Bell Elkins mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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In the West Virginia town of Acker's Gap, county prosecutor Bell Elkins has her hands full dealing with her sister Shirley's release from prison, as well as trying to identify a killer stalking the streets. At the same time, Lindy Crabtree, a true coal miner's daughter, struggles to keep family secrets from exploding into the world. When these women's lives collide, Bell must do her best to ensure that the body count does not climb any higher.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly, and some of them--like Harmon Strayer, father of prosecutor Bell Elkins's former law school classmate--suffer from Alzheimer's. When Harmon dies in an Alzheimer's care facility from what appear to be natural causes, Bell confronts a mystery that brims with questions about memory, grief and the lethal cost of burying...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The first drug overdose comes just after midnight, when a young woman dies on the dirty floor of a gas station bathroom. To the people of the small town of Acker's Gap, West Virginia, it is just another tragedy. It is sad--but these days, depressingly familiar. But then there is another overdose. And another. And another. Prosecutor Bell Elkins soon realizes that her Appalachian hometown is facing its starkest challenge yet: a day of constant heroin...
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