LORI ROY
Two-Time Edgar Award-Winning Author
"Lori Roy's voice is so entrancing you can almost smell the orange blossoms and blood. I loved it."
—Michael Connelly
#1 New York Times bestselling author
"Lake County is an irresistible slice of Florida Noir .... James M. Cain meets Harper Lee."
—Ace Atkins
NYT bestselling author of Don't Let the Devil Ride
“Echoes of Carson McCullers and a soupcon of Flannery O’Connor filter through Lori Roy’s superb Lake County.... an outstanding novel.”
—Oline Cogdill
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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Synopsis - BENT ROAD
For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. As a young man, Arthur fled Kansas, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back-until the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past.
Returning to Bent Road, he and their oldest daughter slip easily into rural life, but Celia and their two younger children grapple with loneliness and the brutality of life and death on a farm. Then, a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve ...
On Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; and a mother realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is a place where people learn:
Sometimes killing is the kindest way.