Tethered

Author(s): Amy MacKinnon

Fiction

Daisies for innocence; Irises for hope; Asphodel for eternal sorrow Clara Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths, beautifying their bodies, and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between her solitary but steadfast existence and the perils of binding one's life to another. Clara's search for the girl pulls her into a spiralling series of events that threaten to endanger the few people Clara has grown to love - and finally brings her own tragic and long-buried past to the surface.Darkly atmospheric and tautly written, Tethered is a haunting and ultimately heart-breaking novel that explores the themes of love, loss, faith and redemption.

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A high quality, startlingly original debut, introducing a stunning new voice Reminiscent of Alice Sebold's global bestseller THE LOVELY BONES From the US editor of SHARP OBJECTS Will appeal to traditional crime fiction fans as well as reading groups

Amy MacKinnon, a former congressional aide, is a freelance writer whose commentaries have appeared in the SEATTLE TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, BOSTON HERALD, PATRIOT LEDGER, and on National Public Radio and This American Life. She lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts with her husband and their three young children.

General Fields

  • : 9780752899015
  • : Orion Publishing Co
  • : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
  • : February 2009
  • : 234mm X 153mm X 21mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Amy MacKinnon
  • : Paperback
  • : Export ed
  • : 272