Katie Estill
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Dahlia's Gone: A Novel
Katie Estill
Sand Williams has returned to her childhood home in the Ozarks for a much-needed rest after years of working abroad as a journalist. A mile upstream from Sand lives Norah Everston, and the two women couldn’t be more different. When Norah asks Sand to look in on her children, Timothy and Dahlia, while she and her husband go traveling, Sand reluctantly agrees, because she grew up in the Ozarks believing that you helped your neighbor out.
Dahlia’s Gone is the story of three remarkable women whose lives are profoundly changed by the murder of Dahlia Everston: Sand, who makes the grisly discovery; Norah, the victim’s grieving step-mother, who comes to blame Sand for the tragedy; and Patty Callahan, who leads the investigation of Dahlia’s brutal murder.
This mesmerizing narrative beautifully and suspensefully explores the aftermath of tragedy, and the process of facing the truth. Dahlia’s Gone looks unflinchingly at what’s been lost, but in the end this is a story about redemption, the beauty of hope, and the soul-healing friendship that can be forged among women.
