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Heather

A Novel

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Heather

By: Caitlin Mullen
Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Christine Lakin, Mia Wurgaft
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A small-town detective reopens an unsolved case, sending shock waves across generations of women in this gripping new mystery from the Edgar Award–winning author of Please See Us.

1994. In the myth-riddled woods of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, sixteen-year-old Annabelle Riley's twin sister, Sabrina, has been having an affair with a mysterious older man, and Annabelle is determined to uncover what's going on. Then, inexplicably, both sisters disappear.

In this same town years later, newly instated police chief Callie Hauser makes an arrest that unexpectedly resurrects details from a heartbreaking cold case. As she digs deeper, the past and the present collide, challenging everything Callie believes about right and wrong, who she is, and the town she's always called home.

A propulsive mystery as incisive as it is forgiving, Heather bears a visceral reminder that the truth of a woman's life is often complicated and unknowable—to those on the outside, and sometimes even to herself.

Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedurals Women Sleuths

Critic Reviews

"Caitlin Mullen’s Heather is the rare book that manages to be both a riveting page-turner and a deeply insightful meditation on the lives of girls and women. A story of mothers, daughters, and the tangled bonds of sisterhood, Heather reveals each character in her full complexity—hard and soft, struggling and empowered, each with her own past full of regrets and fiercely-earned triumphs. The final pages took my breath away."
—Alexis Schaitkin, author of Saint X and Elsewhere

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