American Girl e-bog

From a bright new talent comes a riveting psychological thriller about an American exchange student in France involved in a suspicious accident, and the journalist determined to break the story and uncover the dark secrets a small town is hiding.On a quiet summer morning, seventeen-year-old American exchange student Quinn Perkins stumbles out of the woods near the small French town of St. Roch. Barefoot, bloodied, and unable to say what has happened to her, Quinns appearance creates quite a stir, especially since the Blavettesthe French family with whom shes been stayinghave mysteriously disappeared. Now the media, and everyone in the idyllic village, are wondering if the American girl had anything to do with her host familys disappearance.Though she is cynical about the media circus that suddenly forms around the girl, Boston journalist Molly Swift cannot deny she is also drawn to the mystery and travels to St. Roch. She is prepared to do anything to learn the truth, including lying so she can get close to Quinn. But when a shocking discovery turns the town against Quinn and she is arrested for the murders of the Blavette family, she finds an unlikely ally in Molly.As a trial by media ensues, Molly must unravel the disturbing secrets of the towns past in an effort to clear Quinns name, but even she is forced to admit that the American Girl makes a very compelling murder suspect. Is Quinn truly innocent and as much a victim as the Blavettesor is she a cunning, diabolical killer intent on getting away with murder?Told from the alternating perspectives of Molly, as shes drawn inexorably closer to the truth, and Quinns blog entries tracing the events that led to her accident, The American Girl is a deliciously creepy, contemporary, twisting mystery leading to a shocking conclusion.