Have You Seen Dawn?

£25 · Offered by Goldsboro Books

Best known for his acclaimed mystery fiction set in ancient Rome, Steven Saylor delivers a striking departure with HAVE YOU SEEN DAWN?, a contemporary novel of suspense set in a small Texas town. The result is "rocket of a read."* When young Rue Dunwitty travels from San Francisco back to Texas to visit her wheelchair-bound grandmother, she quickly discovers that something is terribly wrong in the little town of Amethyst. Her unease begins when she see signs posted all over town with a photo of a missing high school student and the haunting question, Have You Seen Dawn? Then, in the middle of the night, from the window of the bedroom where she grew up, Rue see what appears to be a moving flashlight in the fields surrounding an abandoned house on the outskirts of town. A series of seemingly small discoveries gradually turn Rues unease into dread. Someone in Amethyst is hiding a ghastly secretand it seems that Rue is the person destined to uncover the awful truth. A web of white lies and unexplained movements make her suspicious of almost every man around her. Which of them was behind the disappearance of Dawn, and what happened to the pretty young teenager? Unless she can discover the truth in time, it looks like Rue will face the same harrowing fate This is my most autobiographical work, says Steven Saylor, because it draws deeply on memories of people and places in the small town in Texas where I grew up. But the plot is pure contemporary suspensea definite change of pace fo

• Binding: Hardcover

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