Book description
“The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post
“A literary thriller of the highest order” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race against time after an experienced…
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A terrific slow-burn thriller that is equal parts drama and poetry. It's an exciting, edge-of-seat read but also a wise, beautifully written book. In other words, my favorite kind of book.
The story revolves around Valerie Gillis, a nurse who goes missing in Maine on the last leg of hiking the 14-state beast known as the the Appalachian Trail. The story is told from multiple perspectives inlcuding "verbatim" interviews, Valerie's diary entries and letters to her mother, the game wardens and officials looking for Valerie, and a wonderful, eccentric retired scientist who thinks she may have some light to shed…
Using a mystery/thriller paradigm, this book explores the interconnectedness of all lives and how we impact the destinies of one another.
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