In the northern California town of Coventry, two teenage
brothers go into the woods one day, but only one comes back. No one knows what
happened to the younger brother, Josh, until twenty years later, when the older
brother, Oren, now an ex-investigator for the Army CID, returns to Coventry for
the first time in many years. His first morning back, he hears a thump on the
front porch. Lying in front of the door is a human jawbone, the teeth still
intact. And it is not the first such object, his father tells him. Other
remains have been left there as well. Josh is coming home…bone by bone.
Using all his investigative skills, Oren sets out to solve
the mystery of his brother’s murder, but Coventry is a town full of secrets and
secret-keepers: the housekeeper with the fugitive past, the deputy with the old
grudge, the reclusive ex-cop from LA, the woman with the title of town monster,
and, not least of all, Oren himself.
But the greatest secret of all belonged to his brother, and
it is only by unraveling it that Oren can begin to discover the truth that has
haunted them all for twenty years.
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"Very tangled psychological plot that begins with the effects of the disappearance of the younger of two brothers in a small, closed community twenty years later. Tense, involved and very tangled interpersonal relationships. Highly effective book but not one I would read a second time."
—
Sharon (4 out of 5 stars)