Bøger af Valerie Geary

With the inventiveness and emotional power of Promise Not to Tell, The Death of Bees, and After Her, a powerful literary debut about family and friendship, good and evil, grief and forgiveness.He is not evil. I am not good. We are the same: broken and put back together again.Still grieving the sudden death of their mother, Sam and her younger sister Ollie McAlister move from the comforts of Eugene to rural Oregon to live in a meadow in a teepee under the stars with Bear, their beekeeper father. But soon after they arrive, a young woman is found dead floating in Crooked River, and the police arrest their eccentric father for the murder.Fifteen-year-old Sam knows that Bear is not a killer, even though the evidence points to his guilt. Unwilling to accept that her father could have hurt anyone, Sam embarks on a desperate hunt to save him and keep her damaged family together.I see things no one else does.I see them there and wish I didnt. I want to tell and cant.Ollie, too, knows that Bear is innocent. The Shimmering have told her so. One followed her home from her moms funeral and refuses to leave. Now, another is following Sam. Both spirits warn Ollie: the real killer is out there, closer and more dangerous than either girl can imagine.Told in Sam and Ollies vibrant voices, Crooked River is a family story, a coming of age story, a ghost story, and a psychological mystery that will touch readers hearts and keep them gripped until the final thrilling page.

From the critically acclaimed author of Crooked River comes a fascinating novel about a young woman searching for answers about her brother's long-ago disappearanceLucy Durant was only fourteen years old when she lost her older brother, Nolan. First to his paranoid delusions as he became increasingly obsessed with UFOs and government conspiracies. Then, permanently, to the wilderness outside Bishop, California, when he walked into the desert and never returned.On the tenth anniversary of Nolan's mysterious disappearance, Lucy is still struggling with guilt and confusion?her memories from that period are blurry and obscured by time, distance, and alcohol. An adult now, she's stuck in a holding pattern, hiding out at her father's house, avoiding people, and doing whatever she can to keep herself from thinking about Nolan. But when a series of unsettling events leads Lucy back to Bishop, she is forced to reconcile with her estranged mother and come to terms with the tangled memories of her past to discover what really happened to her brother all those years ago.Told in Lucy's and Nolan's alternating voices, Everything We Lost is a psychological mystery exploring family, beliefs, obsessions, the nature of memory, and fear of the unknown.