num_pages: 400
description: One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the towns-people begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. In The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns probes the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune as old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of this seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.
language: English
title: The Church of Dead Girls
titlecomplete: The Church of Dead Girls
genres: Mystery, Adult Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Contemporary, Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Horror, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 2904
places: Western New York, Upstate New York, Aurelius, New York
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Bram Stoker Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: CWA Silver Dagger
publisher: Metropolitan Books