Sycamore : a novel /
Chancellor, Bryn,
Sycamore : a novel / Bryn Chancellor. - First edition. - 323 pages ; 24 cm
"Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess's troubled history."--Dust jacket. On a scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a hiker stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. Longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess's troubled history.
9780062661098 0062661094
2016042150
Missing persons--Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Arizona--Fiction.
Arizona--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Sycamore : a novel / Bryn Chancellor. - First edition. - 323 pages ; 24 cm
"Out for a hike one scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a newcomer to town stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. As news of the discovery makes its way around town, Sycamore's longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier, an unsolved mystery that has soaked into the porous rock of the town and haunted it ever since. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess's troubled history."--Dust jacket. On a scorching afternoon in Sycamore, Arizona, a hiker stumbles across what appear to be human remains embedded in the wall of a dry desert ravine. Longtime residents fear the bones may belong to Jess Winters, the teenage girl who disappeared suddenly some eighteen years earlier. In the days it takes the authorities to make an identification, the residents rekindle stories, rumors, and recollections both painful and poignant as they revisit Jess's troubled history.
9780062661098 0062661094
2016042150
Missing persons--Fiction.
Cold cases (Criminal investigation)--Arizona--Fiction.
Arizona--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Bildungsromans.