'Thrilling, haunting and darkly beautiful. This Wild, Wild Country
enchants as mysteries deepen and secrets echo over the harsh
realities of the American Dream' Chris Whitaker, bestselling author
of We Begin at the End Three women. An isolated town. A decades-old
mystery. They hate me down there, in Boldville. I can read it in
their eyes, smell it on their noxious breaths. That dreaded little
town hates everything about me: not just my personality and form,
the clothes I wear, but the way I think. The things that I know.
1933. Cornelia Stover is headstrong and business-minded - not the
kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be.
Then she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills . . . 1970.
Decades later, Joanna Riley, a former cop, packs up her car in the
middle of the night and drives west, fleeing an abusive marriage
and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually, she runs out of gas
and finds herself in Boldville, a sleepy desert town in the
foothills of the Gila Mountains. Joanna was looking for somewhere
to retreat, to hide, but something is off about this place. In a
commune on the outskirts a young man has been found dead and Joanna
knows a cover up when she sees it. Soon, she and Glitter, a young,
disaffected hippie, find themselves caught up in a dark mystery
that goes to the very heart of Boldville, where for too long people
have kept their eyes shut and turned their heads away. A mystery
that leads them all the way back to the unexplained disappearance
of Glitter's grandmother Cornelia forty years before . . . A
captivating, atmospheric new novel from the lauded author of The
Long, Long Afternoon, This Wild Wild Country simmers with secrets,
lies and terrible betrayal, unravelling the lives of three women at
the mercy of their times. Praise for Inga Vesper 'Remarkably
assured. A tale of inequality, broken dreams and quiet desperation
behind a picture-perfect facade' Guardian 'A clever and absorbing
debut' The Times 'Beguiling and evocative. This vivid and
atmospheric pageturner will keep readers guessing all the way to
its satisfying finale' Sunday Express 'Beautifully crafted,
claustrophobic and compelling. As delicious as a long drink on a
hot day' Stacey Halls, Sunday Times bestselling author of The
Familiars and The Foundling 'Such a vivid atmosphere of stifling LA
heat and stifling 50s domesticity' Clare Chambers, author of Small
Pleasures 'Breathtakingly stylish, hypnotic and masterfully
gripping' Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End,
Waterstones Thriller of the Month 'A triumph. What a pleasure to
read something fresh and original. For once the hype is justified
and Inga Vesper's gripping page turner must surely now be bound for
Netflix' Evening Standard 'A tasty, tense, page-turning combo of
James Ellroy and Kate Atkinson with a bit of Mad Men thrown in' Liz
Hyder 'An atmospheric tale of repression and style at the heart of
the American Dream' Stylist
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