Overview
"THIS SECTION OF WOODS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC FOR HABITAT RESTORATION. STAY TO THE PATH. ""You went back to the Acres, didn't you?"" It's a reasonable question, and I know Marisa's asking it out of concern. ""Yeah, I went there. To sketch."" She sighs. ""It's just ... I know it's nice to be alone and whatever, but ... at night? That's dangerous. And besides, that's probably not the best place for you to hang out, is it? Mentally?"" I give the most convincing smile I can muster. ""It's fine."" Seventeen-year-old Natalie feels like a stranger to herself. Since her dad's death, she's withdrawn from her mom, and her best friend Marisa hardly recognizes her. She loses her job. She's failing half her classes. But Nat doesn't ask for help, doesn't want to burden anyone. Instead, she retreats to an off-limits riverside forest--known as the Acres--where she snaps photos and makes sketches, seeking peace. But one night, this peace is shattered by the nightmare of a lifetime. A young woman is shrouded in a tarp. Dead. A man in black is disposing of the body, and when Natalie photographs the tattoo on his neck, it's only by a hair's breadth that she escapes. Marisa begs her to go to the cops, but Nat's stubbornness holds her back. Then the killer delivers her sketchbook. To her door. Unseen. Inside is a note. Going to the police, he says, would be ""a grave error."" Leave it alone, he promises, and he'll leave her alone, too. But Natalie can't leave it alone. Deep into the tangled web of clues she runs, and the closer she gets to her foe, the more protected he seems. As she chases an elusive justice, her life, and the lives close to her, will be changed forever. If they don't end first."
Full Product Details
Author: Rocky Hirajeta ,
Lily Ganser
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Imprint: Blackstone Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 14.40cm
Weight: 0.200kg
ISBN: 9798212180047
Publication Date: 30 May 2023
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience:
Young adult
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Teenage / Young adult
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Not yet available
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Reviews
"""What the River Buries will keep you on the edge of your seat as small-town secrets are unburied."" -- ""Ivanka Fear, author of The Dead Lie"""
Author Information
Rocky Hirajeta was born in Raleigh, NC, two months early, and from that moment on, would struggle to be on time to any event. He loves making music and capturing photos. As though being a writer were not enough, his taste for classical music, obscure films, and vegan food alienates him even more. One of his dreams is to travel someplace far and unfamiliar, where, being still too afraid to photograph people, he will instead wander from caf� to bookshop, to caf� again.
