Fast boys and pretty girls

Fast boys and pretty girls A novel

Lo Patrick

Book - 2025

"Following a semi-successful career as a teen model in New York City, Danielle Greer has moved back to the mountains of North Georgia and is living in her childhood home with her husband and four daughters. One stifling, lazy afternoon, the girls are exploring the ravine behind the house when they come across a body. Danielle knows the body doesn't belong to Benji Law, a younger local misfit who Danielle had an illicit relationship with as a teenager. No, his body was found right away, after he was killed in a motorcycle accident on the road in front of her family's house. Danielle has a good idea who the body might be, but she doesn't know how it got there. When local police officer Cady Benson is called in to investiga...te, Danielle's world is turned upside down, and she's thrust back into those dark, confusing days leading up to Benji's death, battling the things she remembers with the things she can't forget."--

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Subjects
Murder > Fiction.
First loves > Fiction.
Secrets > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels.
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels
Published
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark [2025]
Language
English
Main Author
Lo Patrick (author)
Item Description
Includes reading group guide.
Physical Description
319 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN
9781728290478
Contents unavailable.
Review by Booklist Review

Danielle Greer left her small Georgia hometown to become a model in New York City after being scouted by an agent at the Pressville Mall. But when the news of a tragic motorcycle accident in Pressville reached Dani (as her agents repackaged her), she moved back home as Danielle, heartbroken. Fifteen years later, the discovery of a skeleton on Danielle's family's property forces her to confront her complicated past and the pull of a world she thought she had left far behind. Patrick (The Night the River Wept, 2024) offers a haunting, atmospheric narrative that captures the contrast between family-focused, small-town Georgia and the image-obsessed Manhattan modeling industry, gradually revealing the full scope of the 15-year-old tragedy and the repercussions Danielle never expected. Readers who enjoyed the Southern noir of Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing (2018), the domestic suspense of Megan Miranda's The Last House Guest (2019), or the atmospheric tension of Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) will enjoy Patrick's exploration of regret, responsibility, and the surprisingly strong bonds of family loyalty.

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

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