Started: 2/12/09
Finished: 2/16/09
Year: 1995
Pages: 264
Genre: Mystery
Grade: B+
Reason for reading: Library book
Blurb (from book jacket): "'This is the darkest story that I ever heard...'
"So begins Thomas H. Cook's haunting tale of love and its aftermath, of the price a whole town paid for a single moment of passionate betrayal.
"The town was Choctaw, Alabama. The place was Breakheart Hill. The girl was Kelli Troy. But the story of what really happened to her there on an August afternoon in 1962 is known by only one man, Ben Wade, the boy who loved her then and who must tell her story now.
"The violence that rocked Breakheart Hill on that summer afternoon did not end on its wooded slope. At least not for Ben Wade, now the town's doctor and one of its most revered citizens. Perhaps it never ended for anyone in Choctaw.
"A tale both of doom and of redeption, Breakheart Hill is the work of a gifted writer at the very peak of his power. Profoundly moving, beautifully written, elegiac in tone yet thrillingly suspenseful, it is a mystery of love remembered that touches on the mystery of life.
Opinion: Another fantastic book. I'm really wondering why I have not heard of this author before recently. Fantastic read.
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