Valentine A Thriller

Elizabeth Wetmore

eBook - 2020

An instant New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick"A thrilling debut that deserves your attention." —Ron Charles, Washington Post"Exceptional. . . . Wetmore, like Harper Lee before her, has little interest in preserving the illusions of people who believe that justice and love will always prevail. . . . An incredibly moving and emotionally devastating piece of work." — Houston ChronicleWritten with the haunting emotional power of Elizabeth Strout and Barbara Kingsolver, an astonishing debut novel that explores the lingering effects of a brutal crime on the women of one small Texas oil town in the 1970s.Mercy is hard in a place like thi...s . . .It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. While the town's... more