Lies in Bone

<p>Told by a tart-tongued young woman with a love of Bruce Springsteen Lies in Bone is at once a mystery and coming-of-age tale fueled by dark secrets involving love murder and the truths worth lying for. </p><p>On Halloween 1963 eleven-year-old Chuck Coolidge and his brother Danny are lost in a toxic smog covering the steel town of Slippery Elm Pennsylvania. When the smog lifts half the town is sick and twenty people are dead. And Danny is missing. </p><p>Now over twenty years later Chuck's teenage daughter Frank plots escape from this busted and disgusted town. When a murdered child is found in the river investigators link the crime to the disappearance of Danny in '63 and Frank's life is turned upside down. In the face of her worst fears she must uncover her family's dark past if she wants to keep her sister Boots from the hands of The State. Led to discover the unimaginable truth about Danny's disappearance Lies in Bone culminates in a shocking eleventh-hour reveal and an emotionally charged finale. </p>