TY - BOOK AU - Blanchard,Alice TI - The shadow girls T2 - A Natalie Lockhart novel SN - 9781250783080 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Minotaur Books KW - Lockhart, Natalie KW - Women detectives KW - Fiction KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Good and evil KW - Missing persons KW - Witches KW - New York (State) KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novels N2 - "Someone is playing deadly games. Lieutenant Luke Pittman lies in the hospital in a coma after being attacked by one of their own. Veronica Manes, Burning Lake's most respected modern-day witch, is dead, her murder left unsolved. Natalie Lockhart has become embroiled in a case with threads that become increasingly difficult to untangle. Now, a new horror is uncovered, one that shocks the town as never before, and the dark, shadowy path forward for Natalie is paved with challenges that haunt her past--Veronica's unsolved case. Her sister's traumatic murder. The long-lost disappearance of her old best friend. Natalie's obsession with finding the truth leads to a twisted, elemental struggle between good and evil--and nothing will ever be the same again. The woods have secrets. The trees are carved with curses. There's something wicked in Burning Lake"-- ER -