Title: The town built on sorrow
Description: Alternates in time between nineteenth-century and contemporary Hawthorn, once a pioneer village beset by strange occurrences and now a strange, isolated small town where sixteen-year-old Harper Spurling unknowingly befriends a serial killer.
Subjects: Murder, Frontier and pioneer life, Serial murders, Paranormal fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Supernatural, Friendship, Mystery and detective stories, Children's fiction, Horror stories