Noir & Narrative with Two-Time Edgar Award-Winning Author Lori Roy

ABOUT THE BOOK

When a true crime series chronicles the tragic childhood summer that changed her life forever, a young woman must grapple with the truth about her father... and herself. Jennifer Jones and her best friends spend every summer at Big Cypress Swamp, and this summer, Jennifer will finally turn eleven. She hopes to gain the “second sight” foretold by family legend and fulfill her destiny. Instead, the swamp serves up dangers greater than the gators lurking on Halfway Creek. Little Francie Farrow vanishes―and Jennifer’s father goes to Pr*son.

Twenty years later, Jennifer has almost shed the label of Paul Jones’s daughter when her past comes barreling back. Inspired by True Events, a TV series that solves the unsolvable, is recreating that fateful summer. As the series continues, Jennifer wonders: Did the show finally find Francie Farrow? And is Jennifer’s father truly guilty?

Someone else wants answers even more than Jennifer does, and they won’t let her forget it.

As the series nears its finale and the long-awaited truth, Jennifer must come to terms with who her family is…and what that makes her.

PRAISE FOR THE FINAL EPISODE

“Lori Roy is at the top of her game in this delightfully twisty thriller about family ties and past mysteries that aren’t quite solved, despite what the present may want to believe. Roy masterfully layers characterization with plot so the last satisfying twist feels utterly surprising but also inevitable. A great read.” —Alafair Burke, NYT bestselling author of THE NOTE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LORI ROY's debut novel, Bent Road, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Her work has been twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book and has been included on various “best of” and summer reading lists. Until She Comes Home was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. Let Me Die in His Footsteps was included among the top fiction books of 2015 by Books-A-Million and named one of the best fifteen mystery novels of 2015 by Oline Cogdill. The novel also received the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, making Roy the first woman to receive an Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel—and only the third person ever to have done so. Roy lives with her family in West Central Florida.

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