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One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the towns-people begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. In The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns probes the...more
One by one, three young girls vanish in a small town in upstate New York. With the first disappearance, the towns-people begin to mistrust outsiders. When the second girl goes missing, neighbors and childhood friends start to eye each other warily. And with the third disappearance, the sleepy little town awakens to a full-blown nightmare. In The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns probes the ruinous effects of suspicion. As panic mounts and citizens take the law into their own hands, no one is immune as old rumors, old angers, and old hungers come to the surface to reveal the secret history of this seemingly genteel town and the dark impulses of its inhabitants.

I liked this book. It's not a typical mystery, with twists and turns and edge of your seat moments. In fact besides mentioning the murders at the very beginning, the crimes don't start taking place until half way through the book. It is an interesting glimpse into a small town where terrible crimes start happening and how the citizens react. Very enjoyable.

Read as part of the New Authors A-Z Read & Release Challenge and the Set It Yourself #13 reading challenge

Mailed off to chucklesthescot as part of the BookCrosser's International Book Relay. I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you very much for this book which arrived safe this morning!

For me, the book just took way too long to get to the point of the story where the murders start happening. I had already lost interest in the book by that point.

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