Title: A short time to die
Description: "Walking home on a foggy night, Marly Shaw stops in the glare of approaching headlights. Two men step out of a pickup truck. One of them is her stepfather. A sudden, desperate chase erupts in gunshots. Both men are left dead. And a terrified girl is on the run for the rest of her life... Thirteen years later, human bones discovered in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California are linked to a mother and son from Central New York. Santa Clara County Sheriff's Detective Vanessa Alba and her partner, Jack Wong, dive into an investigation that lures them deep into the Finger Lakes. They find a community silenced by the brutal grip of a powerful family bound by a twisted sense of blood and honor, whose dark secrets still haunt the one family member who thought she got away..." - Back cover
Subjects: Family secrets, Murder, Investigation, Revenge, Fiction, Fiction, thrillers, Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction, Family secrets -- Fiction, Revenge -- Fiction, Finger Lakes (N.Y.) -- Fiction, Santa Clara County (Calif.) -- Fiction
Places: Finger Lakes (N.Y.), Santa Clara County (Calif.)