Lori Roy's Bent Road
This is a book primarily about family--and family secrets. And small-town secrets. It's the 1960s and Arthur moves his family from Detroit back to Kansas where he grew up (for vaguely racist reasons), but where he hasn't been in twenty years, since his older sister died. His oldest daughter is barely a character at all for some reason, his son is trying to learn to be a man, and his youngest daughter looks just like his dead sister, her namesake. His other sister is married to the man who was supposed to marry the dead sister--and is a suspect in her death. When a little girl goes missing, the drama goes up a notch, like things weren't complicated enough. None of which explains what a good book this is--nothing turned out like I expected, and Roy kept me hooked the whole time. A.
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