Blackthorn winter
By: Kathryn Reiss.
Edition: First Harcourt paperback ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Orlando, Fla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780152061098
Subjects: Secrets -- Fiction.; Adoption -- Fiction.; Artists -- Fiction.; Family life -- England -- Fiction.; Mystery and detective stories.; England -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Fifteen-year-old Juliana can't imagine a place more different from her old home in California than Blackthorn,England--a damp, gray artists' colony filled with ancient homes and residents who seem to know everyone else's business. But when she is befriended by the handsome young man next door, Juliana begins to think living in Blackthorn may not be so bad after all. Just as her family is settling in, their new life is shaken by a grisly murder. Juliana is compelled to investigate the crime--only to find that it echoes long-buried secrets from her own mysterious past. Can Juliana put all the clues together before the killer strikes again?--Cover.