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  • Published: 2 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241004074
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 276

My Sunshine Away




An unsolved rape, a teenage detective seeking justice, and the perfect unsettling backdrop of lush, sweltering Louisiana

One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts across the path. She is raped just yards from her front door. No one sees a thing and the perpetrator is not caught.

Her fourteen-year-old neighbour has loved Lindy from afar since they were kids. He begins investigating neighbourhood 'suspects', determined to solve the crime. But before the long, hot summer is out, he will learn that the white picket fences of his hometown conceal a tangled web of darkness.

In his zeal to solve an unspeakable crime, one lonely teenager stumbles deep into a sinister world he doesn't recognize, drawing ever closer to a terrifying denouement.

  • Published: 2 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241004074
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 276

About the authors

M. O. Walsh

M.O. Walsh is a fiction writer born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Epoch, and Greensboro Review. His short stories have also been anthologized in Best New American Voices, Bar Stories, Best of the Net and Louisiana in Words. He is a graduate of the Ole Miss MFA program and currently lives in New Orleans, LA, where he is the Director of the Creative Writing Workshop at The University of New Orleans. He also directs the The Yokshop Writers Conference in Oxford, MS.