Bone on Bone

Bone on Bone the next powerful chapter in Pulitzer Prize-winner Julia Keller''s beloved Bell Elkins series sends readers headlong into the thick of a mystery as young as today''s headlines -- but as old as the mountains that hold these lives in a tight grip. How far would you go for someone you love? Would you die? Would you kill? After a three-year prison sentence Bell Elkins is back in Acker''s Gap. And she finds herself in the white-hot center of a complicated and deadly case -- even as she comes to terms with one last devastating secret of her own.A prominent local family has fallen victim to the same sickness that infects the whole region: drug addiction. With mother against father child against parent and tensions that lead inexorably to tragedy they are trapped in a grim hopeless struggle with nowhere to turn.Bell has lost her job as prosecutor -- but not her affection for her ragtag hard-luck hometown. Teamed up with former Deputy Jake Oakes who battles his own demons as he adjusts to life as a paraplegic and aided by the new prosecutor Rhonda Lovejoy Bell tackles a case as poignant as it is perilous as heartbreaking as it is challenging.