![]() With a white rat head of hair, albino hair, yes it’s a little stringy and washing it takes too long, it hurts my arms, what if someone else could wash it? Honky skin. But Beth’s thoughts about herself clue us in, a bit alarmingly, that her self-image ran far afield from the one she projected: “A young girl, almost twenty-two. ![]() Set in small-town Michigan, this book dives even deeper into thriller territory than “Hick,” focusing on the murder of a young woman in 1979 and the 25-years-on reinvestigation that’s launched when a group of college students produces a documentary about the unsolved crime.īeth Krause is mostly remembered as the ideal good girl: vaguely pretty, a bit shy, an angelic soprano in the church choir. Portes’ work first gained attention with her debut, 2007’s gripping coming-of-age tale and thriller “Hick.” The author is from Nebraska originally, but spent some time living in Texas, so we’re calling her one of ours ― and she does us proud in her follow-up novel, “Bury This.” ![]() If one could hear novelist Andrea Portes at work typing, I think the keystrokes might sound something like machine-gun fire: rapid, furious bursts of word bullets, aimed directly at the reader’s heart and wasting no extra ammunition in getting there. ![]()
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