Letter From Home

Carolyn G. Hart
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WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL “Bittersweet...Set in a small-town America that lives only in memory, this artfully narrated whodunit observes the residents of an unnamed Oklahoma hamlet over the hot and dusty summer of 1944 as they ration their food, count their war dead and turn on their neighbors.”— TheNew York Times Book Review   World-renowned journalist G.G. Gilman does her best not to think of the past. But one day she gets a letter—sent from the small Oklahoma town where she grew up—that brings it all back. Memories of people she had once known and loved dearly—and of the sultry summer when her life changed forever...
Genres: MysteryFictionHistorical FictionHistoricalBook ClubHistorical MysteryContemporaryChick LitAmericanWorld War II
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