So Much Pretty
  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781446474990
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

So Much Pretty

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2 Feb 2012
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Murder, revenge and violence strike a small American town in this startling debut novel.

'A man can only take so much pretty walking back and forth in front of him.'

When nineteen-year-old Wendy White disappears, the small town of Haeden, New York, is shaken to its core. The police are unable to trace the missing waitress; everyone assumes that she has run away. But, six months later, Wendy's tortured body is found in the nearby woods. She has only been dead for a matter of days.

With no one willing to talk, the investigation slows to a halt. But local reporter Stacy Flynn and high school student Alice Piper have their own reasons for finding out what really happened.

The truth behind Wendy's disappearance has a devastating effect on the town: what was once a rural idyll is now the backdrop to murder, violence and revenge.
  • Published: 2 February 2012
  • ISBN: 9781446474990
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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About the author

Cara Hoffman

Before becoming a novelist, Cara Hoffman worked as an investigative reporter covering New York State's rural and Rust Belt communities, where she reported on crime. This is her first novel.

Praise for So Much Pretty

[A] fearless first novel

New York Times Book Review

A passionately angry ... and shocking book. Cara Hoffman not only discovers the heart of darkness in small town Haeden, but brilliantly dissects it.

Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Sister

Beautiful ... what begins as the suspenseful story of a rural American murder grows into a dark, disquieting and urgently fascinating examination of the violence and concealment practised by a whole society ... this is an impassioned, intelligent and important work of art.

Chris Cleave

Dark, atmospheric tale of murder in a small-town world.

Stylist

Intelligent and gripping stuff

Financial Times

A dark but powerful debut novel ... Hoffman maps the atmosphere of paranoia that descends on the formerly tranquil town as she moves deftly between its inhabitants.

The New Yorker

A mixture of The Lovely Bones and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Booklist

A skillful, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town

Los Angeles Times