The Hiding PlaceDavid Bell
NAL Trade, October 2012
ISBN: 978-0451237965
Sometimes it’s easier to believe a lie.
The Hiding Place tells the story of Justin Manning, a boy who was murdered twenty-five years earlier. The disappearance of the four-year-old rocked the small town of Dove Point, Ohio. After his body was found in a shallow grave in the woods two months later, the repercussions were felt for years.
Janet Manning has been haunted by the murder since the day she lost sight of her brother in the park. Now, with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Justin’s death looming, a detective and a newspaper reporter have started to ask questions, opening old wounds and raising new suspicions.
Janet’s childhood friend and high school crush, who was in the park with her that day, has returned to Dove Point, where he is wrestling with his own conflicted memories of the events. And a strange man appears at Janet’s door in the middle of the night, claiming to know the truth.
The answers that Janet has sought may be found much closer to home than she ever could have imagined. When the past collides with the present in an explosive confession, it changes everything the Mannings thought they knew happened on the day that he disappeared.
In The Hiding Place, David paints a vivid portrait of a family and their community coping with pain and loss, and the uncertainty that can bubble to the surface when questions are raised--a chilling story of the worst that can happen to a family.
DAVID BELL is currently an assistant professor of English at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. He received an MA in creative writing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and a PhD in American literature and creative writing from the University of Cincinnati. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice. His previous novel is Cemetery Girl.
ISBN: 978-0451237965; ISBN10: 045123796X; Imprint: NAL Trade; On Sale: 10/2/2012; Format: Paperback; Pages: 400; $15.00
