![]() ![]() Agent: Melissa Flashman, Trident Media Group. While readers will want to know what happened to Stacy, what most compels is the observant Kirsten’s account of how a small town and a family disintegrate under the weight of the tragedy. Mira, 14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1497-4 Assured storytelling propels DeBoard’s first novel. In the aftermath, gossip, lies, and innuendo take a heavy toll on the Hammarstrom family. When Stacy goes missing, Johnny, the last person to see her, becomes the prime suspect in her disappearance. During an elementary school softball game, angelic 16-year-old Stacy Lemke introduces herself to nine-year-old Kirsten and expresses an interest in Kirsten’s older brother, Johnny, a high school wrestling star. The officer’s request for her license makes Kirsten nervous because he’s old enough to remember the case that put the name Hammarstrom on the front page of every Wisconsin newspaper years earlier. She divides her time between reading, writing, teaching composition at the University of California, Merced, and enjoying the antics of her husband Will and their four-legged brood. ![]() Berkeley professor Kirsten Hammarstrom is driving home to Watankee, Wis., when a cop outside Milwaukee pulls her over for speeding. Paula Treick DeBoard is the author of The Mourning Hours, The Fragile World and The Drowning Girls. ![]() Assured storytelling propels DeBoard’s first novel. ![]()
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