What Have You Done?
What Have You Done?Shari Lapeña
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What Have You Done? (2024)

Shari Lapeña

Others: Mostly positive

Nothing ever happens in sleepy little Fairhill, Vermont. But this morning that will change. And one innocent question could be deadly. What have you done? The teenagers get their kicks telling ghost stories in the old graveyard. The parents trust their kids will arrive home safe from school. Everyone knows everyone. Curtains rarely twitch. Front doors are left unlocked. But Diana Brewer isn’t lying safely in her bed where she belongs. Instead she lies in a hayfield, circled by vultures, discovered by a local farmer. How quickly a girl becomes a ghost. How quickly a town of friendly, familiar faces becomes a town of suspects, a place of fear and paranoia. Someone in Fairhill did this. Everyone wants answers.

ISBN:
9780593489963
Length:
376 pages

Genres: mystery, thriller

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Loved it

I found this one so intriguing I really love the mother's perspective because I could put myself in those shoes and picture being so torn between wanting to protect your child and also realizing that there is a lot of really bad evidence