TY - BOOK AU - Benz,Chanelle TI - The gone dead: a novel SN - 9780062490698 PY - 2019///] CY - New York PB - Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers KW - Family secrets KW - Fiction KW - Fathers KW - Death KW - Southern States KW - Race relations KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - Billie James' inheritance isn't much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day, and she hasn't been back to the South since. Thirty years later, Billie returns but her father's home is unnervingly secluded: her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie encounters the locals, she hears a strange rumor: that she herself went missing on the day her father died. As the mystery intensifies, she finds out that this forgotten piece of her past could put her in danger ER -