THE NIGHT THE RIVER WEPT

From the author of The Floating Girls - a finalist for the Townsend Price for Fiction and a Reader's Digest Editor's Pick - Lo Patrick has once again crafted a story bursting with heartbreak and redemption.

Everybody's got good and bad in them. In the end, it just depends which side wins out. Arlene has lived in a small town on the edge of nowhere her whole life. Now married to her long-time high school sweetheart, Tommy, Arlene is itching to start a family and become the mother she always dreamed of being. But that's proving more difficult hat she thought, and Arlene is desperate to find something to do to keep her mind off things - and get some distance from her husband, who is increasingly getting on her nerves. As the summer gives way to a chilly, lonesome fall, she takes a part-time job bagging evidence at the local police department, where she finds herself reading over old cold cases. One in particular fascinates her: the mysterious death of three young brothers murdered on Deck River, followed by the suicide of the prime suspect. She becomes obsessed with the case, and with the help of the police departments receptionist and a family friend of the suspect, she sets out to discover the truth. She can't help but feel that if she solves the case, she'll find her footing in her young marriage and maybe find what she's been looking for all along. Lo Patrick is a former lawyer and current novelist living in the suburbs of Atlanta. The Floating Girls is her debut.