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In the spellbinding and suspenseful Let Me Die in His Footsteps, Edgar Award winner for Best Novel, author Lori Roy wrests from a Southern town the secrets of two families touched by an evil that has passed between generations. On a dark Kentucky night in 1952, exactly halfway between her fifteenth and sixteenth birthdays, Annie Holleran crosses into forbidden territory. Everyone knows Hollerans dont go near Baines, not since Joseph Carl was buried two decades before, but Annie runs through her familys lavender fields toward the well on the Baines place, hoping to see her future in the water. Instead, she finds a body, and Annies future becomes inextricably tied with her familys dark past. . In 1936, the year Annies aunt, Juna Crowley, came of age, there were seven Baine boys. Before Juna, Joseph Carl had been the best of all the Baine brothers. But then he looked into Junas black eyes and they made him do things that cost innocent people their lives. With the pall of a young childs death and the dark appetites of men working the sleepy town into a frenzy, Sheriff Irlene Fulkerson saw justice served - or did she? . As the investigation continues and she comes of age as Aunt Juna did in her own time, Annies dread mounts. Juna will come home now, to finish what she started. If Annie is to save herself, her family, and this small Kentucky town, she must prepare for Junas return, and the revelation of what really happened all those years ago.



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Lori Roy

Lori Roy was born and raised in the Midwest where she attended and graduated from Kansas State University. She is the two-time Edgar award-winning author of BENT ROAD and LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS, making Lori the first woman to win Best First and Best Novel and the third person to do so. Her most recent novel is GONE TOO LONG (6/19)



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