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“Wildly suspenseful and almost gothic in tone.”—BookPage
Ten years ago, my boyfriend killed my best friend.
When Micah Wilkes was a senior in high school, her boyfriend was convicted of murdering her best friend, Emily, a star ballerina with a bright future. A decade later, Micah has finally moved on from the unforgivable betrayal and loss. Now the owner of a bustling coffee shop in her small hometown in Pennsylvania, she’s happily coupled up with another old high school friend, the two having bonded over their shared sorrow.
But when reminders of her past begin appearing at her work and home, Micah begins to doubt what she knows about Emily’s death. Questions raised on a true crime blog and in an online web sleuthing forum force her to reexamine her memories of that fateful night. She told the truth to the investigators on the case, but was there another explanation for Emily’s murder? A stranger in the woods. An obsessive former classmate. A domineering ballet instructor. Or the internet’s favorite suspect: Joshua, Emily’s outcast younger brother who hasn’t been seen since his sister’s death.
As Micah delves deeper into the case, she feels her grip on reality loosening, her behavior growing more and more secretive and unhinged. As she races to piece together the truth about that night ten years ago, Micah grapples with how things could have gone so wrong and wonders whether she, too, might be next to disappear.
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September 1, 2021
Senior year in high school was not the glory time Micah Wilkes had anticipated; her best friend, Emily, was murdered, and Micah's boyfriend was convicted of the crime. A decade later, Micah has pulled herself together--she owns a coffee shop in her small Pennsylvania town--and is beginning to rethink what she knows about the murder. Then a true crime blog resurrects the case, homing in on Emily's long-vanished younger brother as a possible culprit. A thriller with a literary bent and an insider's perspective--Buccola is an attorney.
Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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November 22, 2021
Micah Wilkes, the narrator of Buccola’s promising if uneven debut, remains imprisoned by the past a decade after she helped convict her high school boyfriend, Alex Swift, of killing her best friend, Emily Winters, with whom he’d secretly been cheating. Now 27, Micah is living in her insular hometown of Calvary, Pa., running a coffee shop, dating one of Alex’s closest buds from high school, and having increasingly triggering run-ins with Alex’s current girlfriend, Julia Reynolds, an unprepossessing legal secretary spearheading the campaign to overturn his conviction. Initially dismissing this effort as Julia’s ploy to make herself indispensable to Alex, Micah comes to have unsettling doubts after reading online discussions citing such deficiencies in the case as the absence of forensic evidence and the perfunctory police investigation—enough that she starts digging herself. Though Emily and Alex are underdeveloped, and the novel bogs down at times in the minutiae of Micah’s day-to-day, some startling twists and troubling questions concerning guilt and justice await those who stay the course. Psychological thriller fans will be curious to see what Buccola does next. Agent: Julia Kenny, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary.
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