John Burley

The Quiet Child

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From the award-winning author of The Absence of Mercy comes a gripping and darkly psychological novel about family, suspicion, and the price we are willing to pay to protect those we love the mostIt’s the summer of 1954, and the residents of Cottonwood, California, are dying. At the center of it all is six-year-old Danny McCray, a strange and silent child the townspeople regard with fear and superstition, who appears to bring illness and ruin to those around him. Even his own mother is plagued by a disease that is slowly consuming her.Sheriff Jim Kent, increasingly aware of the whispers and rumors surrounding the boy, has watched the people o… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-06-243185-1
EAN: 9780062431851
Produktnummer: 21108319
Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Gattung: Novel
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback

Über den Autor

John Burley is the author of The Absence of Mercy, honored with the National Black Ribbon Award; The Forgetting Place; and The Quiet Child. He attended medical school in Chicago and completed his emergency medicine residency at University of Maryland Medical Center and the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore. He continues to serve as an emergency medicine physician in Northern California.