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Dodging and Burning - A Mystery (Paperback)
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Dodging and Burning - A Mystery (Paperback)
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*Winner of the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Novel* *Nominated
for 2019 Barry, Lambda Literary, Strand, and Anthony Awards* A
lurid crime scene photo of a beautiful woman arrives on mystery
writer Bunny Prescott's doorstep with no return address-and it's
not the first time she's seen it. The reemergence of the photo,
taken fifty-five years earlier, sets her on a journey to
reconstruct the vicious summer that changed her life. In the summer
of 1945, Ceola Bliss is a lonely twelve-year-old tomboy, mourning
the loss of her brother, Robbie, who was declared missing in the
Pacific. She tries to piece together his life by rereading his
favorite pulp detective story "A Date with Death" and spending time
with his best friend, Jay Greenwood, in Royal Oak, VA. One
unforgettable August day, Jay leads Ceola and Bunny to a stretch of
woods where he found a dead woman, but when they arrive, the body
is gone. They soon discover a local woman named Lily Vellum is
missing and begin to piece together the threads of her murder,
starting with the photograph Jay took of her abandoned body. As
Ceola gets swept up playing girl detective, Bunny becomes
increasingly skeptical of Jay, and begins her own investigation
into the connection between Jay and Lily. She discovers a series of
clues that place doubt on Jay's story about the photograph. She
journeys to Washington, D.C., where she is forced to confront the
brutal truth about her dear friend-a discovery that triggers a
series of events that will bring tragedy to Jay and decades of
estrangement between her and Ceola.
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