“A twisted family dynamic and complex personal history combine with a touch of romance. If you haven’t yet read Shanessa Gluhm, you need to put her on your to-be-read list.”-Allen Eskens, USA Today bestselling author of The Life We Bury Just when you think you know where the story is headed, she reveals another thread. “In A River of Crows, Shanessa Gluhm spins a complex web of murder and family revelation that propels the reader forward at a breakneck pace.
What she discovers will shock her small community and turn her family upside down.Ī River of Crows is a tale of family secrets, deception, and revenge perfect for fans of Julia Heaberlin and Jennifer Hillier. When the body of another boy is found, Sloan begins to question what really happened to her brother all those years ago. There, she is shocked to hear a crow muttering the same syllable over and over: Ridge, Ridge, Ridge. Overwhelmed by memories and unanswered questions, Sloan returns to the last place her brother was seen all those years ago: Crow’s Nest Creek. In the middle of a bitter divorce, she’s forced to return to her rural Texas hometown when her mother is discharged from a mental health facility. Now, twenty years later, Sloan’s life is unraveling. Ridge’s body was never recovered, and Sloan’s mother-a brilliant ornithologist-slowly descended into madness, insisting her son was still alive. Their father, a good-natured Vietnam veteran prone to violent outbursts, was arrested and charged with murder. In 1988, Sloan Hadfield’s brother Ridge went fishing with their father and never came home.
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