This Wild, Wild Country

Three women. An isolated town. A decades old mystery. They hate me down there, in Boldville. I can read it in their eyes, smell it on their noxious breaths. That dreaded little town hates everything about me: not just my personality and form, the clothes I wear, but the way I think. The things that I know. 1933. Cornelia Stover is not the kind of woman the men of Boldville, New Mexico, expect her to be. Then she stumbles upon a secret hidden out in the hills. 1970. Decades later, Joanna Riley, a former cop, packs up her car in the middle of the night and drives west, fleeing an abusive marriage and a life she can no longer bear. Eventually, her car runs out of gas and she finds herself in Boldville, a sleepy desert town in the foothills of the Gila Mountains. Joanna was looking for somewhere to retreat, to hide, but something is off. about this place. In a commune on the outskirts a young man has been found dead and Joanna knows a cover up when she sees it. Soon, Joanna and Glitter, a young, disaffected hippy, find themselves caught up in a dark mystery the goes to the very heart of this town, where for too long people have kept their eyes shut and turned their heads away. A mystery that leads all the way back to the unexplained disappearance of Glitter's grandmother Cornelia forty years before. A captivating, atmospheric new novel from the lauded author of The Long, Long Afternoon, This Wild Wild Country. simmers with secrets, lies and terrible betrayal, unravelling the lives of three women at the mercy of their times.