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A Field of Darkness
Cornelia Read · 2006 · 308 pages
"In Syracuse, New York, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting, ex-debutante gets in over her head in a twenty-year-old murder investigation"--Provided by publisher.
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Tana French
“Madeline Dare is a tough-talking ex-debutante turned small-town reporter. Then a set of dog tags found in a field seem to implicate her favorite cousin in a long-ago double murder… All fiction is, to some extent, about shaping reality into patterns, but this book takes that process a step further: big chunks of the plot, and many of the characters, are taken from Read’s own life. I’ve seen plenty of semi-autobiographical chick lit and literary fiction, but never semi-autobiographical mystery. That step brings up a whole new set of ethical questions and dangers. The mystery genre is basically all about the intricacies of morality, and this book adds a whole new layer.”↗