The Weight of Blood

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<p><b>'It is a long time since I have read a debut as impressive as Laura McHugh's<i>The Weight of Blood</i>. It is a chilling portrait of a small town in the Ozarks where violent men are protected and young women vanish.' Joan Smith,<i>The Sunday Times</i></b></p><p>People still whisper about Lucy Danes mother who vanished years ago from the town of Henbane, deep in the Ozark mountains.</p><p>When one of Lucys friends is found murdered, Lucy feels haunted by the two lost women: by the mother she never knew, and the friend she couldnt protect.</p><p>But her search for answers, in a place where secrets are easily concealed, leads her to a chilling discovery.</p><p>And with this revelation, she must grapple with the meaning of family, the secrets we keep, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love.</p>

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<b>LAURA MCHUGH's</b>short fiction has been published in<i>Confrontation</i>and<i>Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley.</i>She lives in Missouri, and this is her first novel.

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