So much pretty
By: Cara Hoffman
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444813012
Subjects: Fiction; New York (N.Y.) - Fiction
Description: "When she disappeared from her rural hometown, Wendy White was a sweet, family-oriented girl, who had recently moved out on her own. It happens all the time - a woman goes missing, a family mourns, and the case remains unsolved. Stacy Flynn is a reporter looking for her big break. Five months after she disappeared, Wendy's body is found in a ditch just off one of Haeden's main roads. Suddenly, Flynn has a big story, but no one wants to talk to her. No one seems to think that Wendy's killer could still be among them. Fifteen-year-old Alice Piper is an imaginative student with a genius IQ and strong ideals. When Alice reads Flynn's passionate article in the Haeden Free Press about violence against women--about the staggering number of women who are killed each day by people they know--she begins to connect the dots of Wendy's disappearance and death, leading her to make a choice: join the rest in turning a blind eye, or risk getting involved. As Flynn and Alice separately observe the locals' failure to acknowledge a murderer in their midst, Alice's fate is forever entwined with Wendy's when a second crime rocks the town to its core"-- Publisher's description.