Blacklands: A Novel

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Blacklands: A Novel

EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murderedâ€”after all, serial killer Arnold Avery later admitted killing six other children and burying them on the same desolate moor that surrounds their small English village. Only Billyâ€™s mother is convinced he is alive. She still stands lonely guard at the front window of her home, waiting for her son to return, while her remaining family fragments around her.

But her twelve-year-old grandson Steven is determined to heal the cracks that gape between his nan, his mother, his brother, and himself. Steven desperately wants to bring his family closure, and if that means personally finding his uncleâ€™s corpse, heâ€™ll do it.

Spending his spare time digging holes all over the moor in the hope of turning up a body is a long shot, but at least it gives his life purpose.

Then at school, when the lesson turns to letter writing, Steven has a flash of inspiration . . . Careful to hide his identity, he secretly pens a letter to Avery in jail asking for help in finding the body of "W.P."â€”William "Billy" Peters.

So begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game.

Just as Steven tries to use Avery to pinpoint the gravesite, so Avery misdirects and teases his mysterious correspondent in order to relive his heinous crimes. And when Avery finally realizes that the letters heâ€™s receiving are from a twelve-year-old boy, suddenly his life has purpose too.

Although his is far more dangerous . . .

Blacklands is a taut and chillingly brilliant debut that signals the arrival of a bright new voice in psychological suspense.

Country	USA
Author	Belinda Bauer
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Bauer, Belinda
EAN	9781439149454
Edition	Reprint
IsAdultProduct
ISBN	1439149453
IsEligibleForTradeIn	1
Label	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2011-01-11
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
ReleaseDate	2011-01-11
SKU	APX7688211171470844
Studio	Simon & Schuster

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