BOOKS - The Wilderness: A Leslie Stone Novel
The Wilderness: A Leslie Stone Novel - Karen Novak January 10, 2005 PDF  BOOKS
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The Wilderness: A Leslie Stone Novel
Author: Karen Novak
Year: January 10, 2005
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.6 MB
Language: English

Read the dark and thrilling new Leslie Stone novel that asks the question: Can violence and its legacy ever be absolved?When the body of an elderly man is found naked, frozen to death on the grounds of an abandoned petting zoo near where private investigator Leslie Stone lives with her family, the discovery triggers what Leslie calls the and "haunted amusement park and " of her mind. Voices and apparitions she knows to be hallucinatory disrupt her waking world. And she is unable to forget that the old man has left behind what seems like a riddle: an odd drawing and a children's poem with a shifting meaning, titled and "The Wilderness. and "Compelled to find out what happened, Leslie finds her search interlacing with that of investigative journalist Sophia Mallory, who is tracing her personal path through the historical tragedy of slavery and its aftermath. Together they uncover a pattern of institutionalized violence so brutal, so inexplicable, that it resembles a curse. As and "The Wilderness and " leads each woman deeper into the past, it also leads them deeper into their own psyches, forcing them to question their motives for solving a mystery which threatens to destroy the lives of everyone they love.

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