Sabbathday River
On a warm September morning in 1985, not far from the town of Goddard, New Hampshire, Naomi Roth finds the drowned body of a newborn baby girl floating in the Sabbathday River. The community makes its own accusations, and a young single mother is the prime suspect.
On a warm September morning in 1985, not far from the town of Goddard, New Hampshire, Naomi Roth finds the drowned body of a newborn baby girl floating in the Sabbathday River. The community makes its own accusations, and a young single mother is the prime suspect.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780515130119 (0515130117)
Publish date: February 1st 2001
Publisher: Jove
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
I read a lot of murder mysteries, usually of the subgenre called "police procedurals", and I think I'd been pretty well submerged in those at the time I picked this one up. It turned out to be quite a surprise. It's more about how a small town reacts to people who don't conform, than actually abou...